Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade?

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 06:40:22AM -0400, Gary Duzan wrote:
>    Has anyone looked into upgrading xf96-video-intel and the Intel
> libdrm to the latest versions from Intel? It appears they are needed
> to support the video on my new Thinkpad T520. If it just needs
> someone to work on it, I can do that.

They removed support for non-KMS non-DRI1 kernels soon after the version
we currently have.  In short, we can't upgrade until the kernel support
(at least GEM/DRI2) is there.

There's been some work already:
https://github.com/gsutre/netbsd-drmgem

        Jonathan Kollasch