Lenovo Y510P test on latest Dfly amd64

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Wed May 21 11:15:59 PDT 2014


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:56:03AM -0700, Zachary Crownover wrote:
> We are closer to Linux than FreeBSD?

In a way, yes. Our drm infrastructure and i915 driver are now more like their
Linux version than the FreeBSD one is.
I don't know what the FreeBSD developers are doing with drm/i915 but as far as
I know it has mostly been unchanged for a year.

FreeBSD itself contains some wrappers for common Linux APIs, which I have been
adding to DragonFly and started using in the drm code.
We also have local implementations of some different Linux APIs like idr(9)

Our drm/i915 driver already contains some Haswell and Valleyview code (newer
Atoms) but much more work is needed to make these GPUs usable.

-- 
Francois Tigeot



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