Re: X.org plans for the squeeze cycle
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:37:18AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> One more thing. Intel plans to deprecate userspace mode setting with
> their Q4 2009 release (meaning December this year, so probably something
> we'll want for squeeze, depending on the freeze date you pick).
Oh, no. Not again. It does not yet properly work without the new memory
manager (#538442). And KMS is completely unusable currently on this
kernels.
> This might also mean that we'll want to
> turn kms on by default in the debian kernel,
Is KMS backward compatible with older versions of the intel driver?
Does not looks like:
| bool "Enable modesetting on intel by default"
| depends on DRM_I915
| help
| Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default,
| and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old
| userspaces with this enabled will cause pain. Note that this causes
| the driver to bind to PCI devices, which precludes loading things
| like intelfb.
Bastian
--
I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth.
-- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3198.9
Reply to: