Re: Backporting?

Chavdar Ivanov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.x11
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https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97125/intel-core-i3-7101te-processor-3m-cache-3-40-ghz.html
says "Intel® HD Graphics 630".

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 17:35, Robert Swindells <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> >>> How difficult is it to backport xsrc?
> >>
> >> Would help if you said what kind of graphics card you want to use.
> >
> >Fair point.  I was thinking of taking all - or almost - of xsrc, on the
> >assumption that I'd get all the hardware support that's there, but if
> >it's possible to pull in just the support for a particular piece, that
> >might be easier.
>
> It is also that some architectures and graphics controllers are more
> complicated to support.
>
> On amd64 and i386 you also need kernel code for the userland part to
> be able to work. This kernel code should deal with the multiple output
> devices.
>
> >8.0 reports it as
>
> The important bit is this:
>
> >vga0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 8086 product 5912 (rev. 0x04)
>
> So it is an Intel controller.
>
> >drm at vga0 not configured
>
> It doesn't look like the kernel recognizes the GPU.
>
> Can you check whether the "i915drmkms* ..." line is enabled in the
> kernel config ?
>
> I think it will be easier to switch to 9.0, unless you also want to
> backport everything under src/sys/external/bsd/drm2.



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