[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-modesetting 0.1.0

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 08:05:15 PST 2012


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This is the initial release of a generic kernel modesetting driver for Linux.

It is to be used like -fbdev was as a generic fallback driver when the main
driver isn't available.

It doesn't provide any acceleration features except shadowfb.

It also can be used as the driver for chipsets where userspace acceleration
isn't useful, usb devices, dumb framebuffers etc.

Dave.

Alan Hourihane (14):
      Initial commit of new modesetting driver
      Run indent
      Plug in hardware cursor support
      Bring inline with current modesetting-101 branch for connector/encoder changes
      Add DRI2 support.
      formatting fixes
      more formatting fixes
      yet more
      Add EXA winsys for gallium pipe driver interface.
      Fix copy surface
      NULL checks
      add --with-gallium-dir to specify location of gallium tree
      More error checking
      fixes for gallium stride changes

Dave Airlie (22):
      drop exa
      modesetting: restart driver effort from other codebases
      cleanup some the drmmode_display header file
      modesetting: rewrite probing based on fbdev.
      gut some more unneeded code
      update authors/copyright
      drop loading dri2
      port damage tracking code from st/xorg
      fix server recycling
      add -Wall, cleanup warnings
      remove unused debug
      add shadowfb support, default to on.
      add initial man page
      check drm support dumb buffer capability
      fix make distcheck
      fix fb_id for dirty reporting
      configure: don't require xvmc.
      fixup device open
      fix some whitespace
      modesetting: add cursor fallback if kernel rejects cursor.
      cleanup dumb cap fetch
      use a cap to decide if shadow is preferred or not.

James Simmons (1):
      don't map cursors in sw cursor mode

Matt Turner (1):
      Don't check for Xinerama.

Thomas Hellstrom (1):
      Avoid an EXA init segfault.

Zack Rusin (1):
      Adding some readme.

git tag: xf86-video-modesetting-0.1.0

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-modesetting-0.1.0.tar.bz2
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http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-modesetting-0.1.0.tar.gz
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