Re: modesetting vs intel in 10.0

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 19:43, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> After some testing on a Skylake machine, I've concluded
> that xf86-video-modesetting is far superior to xf86-video-intel
> on that generation of Intel hardware - the most obvious thing
> is that modesetting has functional VSync and superior 3D performance
> with less tearing.
>
> Only problem is that we default to intel, modesetting you need
> to choose explicitly through xorg.conf.
>
> I also found similar problems in "radeon", but found that
> modesetting would somehow pick a display mode that the monitor
> didn't support. Maybe this is actually a drmkms bug - I'm not
> sure.
>
> But maybe modesetting is mature enough (and intel bad enough)
> to warrant being the default for Intel GPUs.

Could we start with some form of whitelist to pick modesetting over intel?

David