linux-kernel - Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ?

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.82.0804282016440.5277@skynet.skynet.ie>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:18:34 +0100 (IST)
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
To:	Gabriel C <crazy@...galware.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Wang Zhenyu <zhenyu.z.wang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ?

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Gabriel C wrote:

> Hello ,
> 
> are there any plans to add G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support for the intelfb driver ?
> Is this driver still maintained ?
> 
> ( I'm not really sure who maintains this driver so I've add peoples to CC I saw worked on it ,
> I've also added Wang Zhenyu to CC while he added this support for AGP )
> 

Intel fb is unmaintained (well I've done trivial fixes in the past), and 
I'd rather not add new chipset support to it.

We are working (RH and Intel) on a new kernel modesetting layer which will 
allow fbs integrated with proper memory management and support all intel 
hw, 

The main problem with intelfb is it trips up the userspace X drivers a lot 
and generally break things..

Dave.
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