Lenovo Y510P test on latest Dfly amd64

bodie bodzart at openbsd.cz
Wed May 21 10:49:23 PDT 2014



On 21.05.2014 19:33, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:37:26PM +0200, bodie wrote:
>>
>> 2) X works in VESA - no Intel/KSM for Intel HD4600?
>
> That's KMS and no, the drm/i915 kernel driver currently only supports
> GPUs up to the previous generation (Ivy Bridge).
>
> Our current driver was ported from FreeBSD and had been adapted to 
> work
> with special FreeBSD APIS and a frankenstein-like DRM implementation
> based on 10-year old code with some upgrades.
>
> I'm trying to get both drm and drm/i915 in shape by replacing the 
> FreeBSD
> APIs by Linux ones and reducing the differences with the Linux code 
> base.
>
> The OpenBSD folks have apparently choosen the same path and are now
> more-or-less feature complete with Linux so it's not impossible to 
> do.
>
> It will just time a good amount of work and time.

Ok, so one point cleared up. Thx for update and info.




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