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Re: porting drm [gem] from openbsd



I am working very slowly on drm, although I was looking at the linux-2.6 branch.

On 2010-10-19, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> As you might have gleaned from the link below, the branch to look at in
> linux git is drm-intel-next.  I will definitely need help with this--anyone
> care enough to be interested? ;-)
> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Blair Sadewitz 
> <blair.sadewitz%gmail.com@localhost>wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I finally have both spare time and a machine to do NetBSD development on.
> >  Unfortunately, it has Intel an Clarkdale IGD.  The driver requires the gem
> > interface.  Apparently, OpenBSD supports this [to some extent or other].  I
> > haven't gotten a chance to look at it in detail, but am wondering if anyone
> > would be interested in working on porting/merging this with me.  My device
> > has a vendor/device of 0x8086 0x0042.  I'll  probably end up getting some
> > card that's compatible with radeondrm, but I figure I might as well give it
> > the ol' college try in lieu of simply giving up outright.
> >
> > I'm not obtuse, but I am really rusty and will undoubtedly need lots of
> > guidance. ;-)
> >
> > Also, check out
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2010-March/006382.html for
> > an idea of what's going on in linuxland.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --Blair

-- 
Kind regards,

Yorick Hardy


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