Re: Modular X broken

[Richard PALO <Richard.PALO%baou.fr@localhost>]

Le 19/05/13 10:47, Jukka Ruohonen a écrit :
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 09:56:44AM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote:
> > The fundamental problem seems to be that you are running the wrong
> > branch of pkgsrc? It is like complaning when NetBSD-current breaks...
> >
> > If you want stability then run a stable branch of pkgsrc.
>
> Not really: the fundamental problem is that NetBSD does not support KMS
> etc. These are required by the new Intel-driver, meaning that pkgsrc no
> longer supports the market-leader of x86 embedded graphics on NetBSD.
>
> - Jukka.

This is an interesting discussion.
But given the update:
> -DISTNAME=      xf86-video-intel-2.7.1
> -PKGREVISION=   6
> +DISTNAME=      xf86-video-intel-2.19.0

if 2.19 is impossible for *any* pkgsrc modular-xorg-server with intel,
then why not go back to a version that meets your needs?

Many of the dri1 drivers that are dropped(*) in Mesa8 have been upgraded 
to support Mesa7.11.2 more or less fine.

The versions of the intel driver with respect to Xorg is:
> Module  Directory       7.0     7.1     7.2     7.3     7.4     7.5     7.6     
> 7.7
> xf86-video-intel        driver  none                    2.1.1   2.4.2   2.9.1   
> 2.13.0  2.19.0

It seems that at least the 2.9 branch has a means to *not* assume KMS
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?h=2.9&id=1fc3f467ab3edd405adc569ac7f629077e6ffb9d

Perhaps it is similar for the 2.13 branch?


(*)From the release notes for Mesa 8.0:
> Changes
>
>     Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, i810, 
> mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were removed.
>     Removed support for BeOS.
>     Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and "ICD" 
> drivers.
>     Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.
>     Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by desktop 
> OpenGL, GL_COLOR_INDEX data can still be uploaded to a color (e.g., RGBA) 
> texture. However, the data cannot be stored internally as color-index.
>     Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.
>     Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded by the 
> gallium drivers for this hardware.
>     Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were either 
> broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or deprecated.



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Richard PALO
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