linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes

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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:27:19 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Sindhudweep Sarkar <sindhudweep.sarkar@...il.com>
Cc:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core
	changes

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:03:09PM -0400, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote:
> This might be the opinion of a completely non educated end user but it
> seems that an intel specific drm and other bits (xorg, mesa) would be
> somewhat of a maintenance waste.

What do you mean by this?

> TI-OMAP 3xxx and a couple of other arm processors use similar SGX-5xx
> graphics cores. IIRC arm is often little endian so perhaps a unified
> driver would be easier in the long term.

Long term lots of things are good.

But how do I get my laptop that I currently have right now up and
running properly with linux in a better-than-800x600-framebuffer mode?

That's why I need/want this driver now, there are hundreds of thousands
of these types of laptops in the pipeline to users and I want them to
run Linux, not be forced to run some other operating system...

thanks,

greg k-h
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