[OpenIndiana-discuss] update (intel) graphics

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 4:14 PM Stephan Althaus <
Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I would like to have a look into your work,
> is there a sourcecode repo for 'xorg-testing' anywhere?
>

I need to recover the source tree from my laptop disk first.
I'll update you when it is pushed.



>
> On 02/09/19 02:38 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> > Hi,
> > a main difficulty is that illumos lacks some kms bits.
> > Also the intel linux drm driver was refactored about 4 years ago and
> > has diverged considerably from our code base.
> > I have spent some time reorganizing the code base last year to match
> > Linux without introducing functional changes.
> > This could help incremental changes.
> > Unfortunately I am not able to contribute to OI for now so I won't
> > have time to integrate this.
> > One could use the xorg-testing repository to push and test incremental
> changes.
> > That's how minor chnages to the X stack have been shared in the past.
> >
> > On 2/9/19, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> For my personal like - and for a better acceptance of the oi-distro in
> >> the world ;-)
> >> i would like to update the (intel) graphics drivers to a recent state.
> >>
> >> it seems to me that this is not an easy job to do,
> >> as at a quick look these files are at minimum related:
> >>
> >> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h
> >> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/drm/drm_pciids.h
> >> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/intel/io/i915/i915_drv.c
> >> gfx-drm/usr/src/common/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.75/intel/intel_chipset.h
> >> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/i915_drv.h
> >> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/drm_pciids.h
> >> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h
> >>
> xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/intel_driver.h
> >>
> xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/i915_pciids.h
> >>
> xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/xvmc/i915_xvmc.h
> >>
> >>  ... broad spread and some files are 'old' ...
> >>
> >> I am a beginner, but also would like to provide some help (minimum at
> >> testing)
> >> - i dont know the right way how to achieve the goal.
> >> where should i start? what are the steps?
> >> Someone willing to act as a mentor??
> >>
> >> All hints and opinions are welcome :-)
> >>
> >> Thanks for listening!
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >> Stephan
> >>
> >>
> >>
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