modesetting feature status

[David Nielsen]

2008/9/11 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:46:04PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:09 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:06 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:18 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> > > For the beta we are only going to enable Radeon support for the r300
> to
> >> > > r500 class of hardware, while we await upstream changes to the Intel
> >> > > driver.
> >> >
> >> > ... we really shouldn't shove in major changes like this for a
> >> > significant chunk of hardware post-beta.  Putting it in the beta means
> >> > that we get a relatively large chunk of testing done due to the
> >> > visibility surrounding the beta announce.  As well as having time to
> fix
> >> > large problems that are uncovered.  Later milestones both a) lack the
> >> > time for changes after them and b) the visibility.
> >>
> >> So are you saying:
> >>
> >> a) enable it for both, see what breaks
> >
> >I've been advocating us getting the pieces merged for a long time so
> >that we could see what was broken rather than trying to wait for a
> >mythical "perfection" that's been just another week or two out for on
> >the order of months now.
> >
> >> b) remove both, because, screw it
> >
> >This is a part of the contingency plan.  But removing for both seems a
> >little extreme.
> >
> >There's also c) Just enable it for radeon.  Intel users get pretty
>
> It's not working very well on radeon either.  My laptop never gets a
> display (i686), and it's hosed on ppc in general.


Neither my trusty old r200 nor my shiny new r600 experience any issues
booting in the default configuration, however there is no sign of
acceleration so the X experience is so slow as to be practically useless. I
trust the regression will go away by stable, I will help any way I am able
to make it so (which frankly does not go beyond testing new code and
reporting back).

- David

- David
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