Subject: Re: drm drivers for NetBSD
To: Yorick Hardy <yhardy@uj.ac.za>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 03/19/2007 15:07:57
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Hello,

On Mar 19, 2007, at 04:05, Yorick Hardy wrote:

> I managed to get drm working here on NetBSD 4.0_BETA2
> using the i915 driver.

Nice!
I'll give it a shot as soon as I have some spare time :)

> No guarantee that it will work for anyone else ;-)

I have no intel hardware here - let's see how far I get with radeon and 
mach64. Will have to add some frob to make the DRMs attach to something 
else than vga though.

> 5) FreeBSD has sys/dev/drm, while I chose
>   sys/dev/pci/drm because most of the drivers
>   seem PCI bound.

I'd still put them into sys/dev/drm - a while ago I was hacking on DRM 
support for Sun Creator3D graphics boards which are very non-PCI but 
that's really just cosmetics.

have fun
Michael
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