From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 08:24:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4B416A4D8; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:24:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net (shockwave.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACA143D3F; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:24:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keith@tungstengraphics.com) Received: from tungstengraphics.com (81-178-243-177.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.243.177]) by shockwave.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F46F1C003F7; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:24:29 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <411B293D.9060809@tungstengraphics.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:24:29 +0100 From: Keith Whitwell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dokuchaev References: <20040811110731.GA74988@regency.nsu.ru> <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040812023911.GB89594@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040812023911.GB89594@regency.nsu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:00:15 +0000 cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: eta@lclark.edu cc: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net cc: John Baldwin Subject: Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:24:38 -0000 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:20:11PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >>On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:07 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> >>>Hi there, >>> >>>Judging from /sys/dev/drm/ contents, and listed kernel options in NOTES, >>>there's currently evidence of support for i810/830 chips in FreeBSD, >>>which (I suspect) is the probable reason why DRI is not enabled on my >>>box (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT from yesterday, latest X.Org). I also found >>>traces of i810/830 support in FDo CVS >>>(http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dri/drm/bsd/i830/), >>>getting me to the fact that i8x0 files were removed from the BSD side, >>>since they were not actually ported. (Unfinished? broken? unstable?) >> >>The i830 DRM stuff is ported in a branch of DRI, but it's not in DRI head >>because of a security problem with the code. > > > Thanks. That's a good info to start with. May I ask you the details of > security problem you've mentioned, or at least some pointer in this > direction? Appropriate maillist and/or google reference would be fine, > I guess. In general, don't bother with the i830.o kernel module or driver any longer, they're deprecated in favour of the new, cleaner implementation in the i915 drivers. Look at the changes on the i865-agp branch and pull those into the i915 driver. Keith