[Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH 00/21] Patch series available for a pull

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 08:36 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: m.e.racine at gmail.com [mailto:m.e.racine at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> > Martin-éric Racine
> > Sent: 2011年11月21日 15:43
> > To: Gaetan Nadon
> > Cc: Geode Mailing List; Arrigo Marchiori; Huang, FrankR; Andres Salomon;
> > Chris Ball; Mart Raudsepp
> > Subject: Re: [Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH 00/21] Patch series available for
> > a pull
> > 
> > 2011/11/21 Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>:
> > > This aggregates the patches recently posted.
> > >
> > > You can browse the patches at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~gnadon/xf86-
> > video-geode/
> > > or you can pull them into your source tree:
> > >
> > > git pull --rebase git://people.freedesktop.org/~gnadon/xf86-video-geode
> > >
> > > There are no driver functionality changes but it now compiles on FreeBSD
> > > A quick check to load the driver on a Geode system would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Gaetan,
> > The new build scripts don't produce any nasty suprise. As for
> > compiling using a 64-bit host or for testing ZTV, I'm not equipped to
> > do either one, so I'm unable to comment on those points. Other than
> > that, this looks good to me.
> > 
> > Frank,
> > Would you have any comment on the changes made since 2.11.12 as
> > appearing in Gaetan's GIT repository above? Especially since we're
> > unable to test changes made to ZTV, your input would be invaluable.
> About the ZTV part, I have not had a chance to try this module, even for the Lenovo's project. But AFAIK, this part works find with VIP module with an external decoder to do the video overlay. So please keep this part as what it is now.

There is no intention of removing anything. We'd like to hear from
someone who can confirm that it works when running from a popular Linux
distro "out-of-the-box" with one of the popular desktop such as Gnome or
KDE. I am wondering how the ztv driver gets loaded as it is not known to
the X server.

Thanks,
Gaetan

> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 
> > 
> > Arrigo,
> > Can you confirm whether this now builds out-of-the-box on a FreeBSD
> > system and whether the driver it produces remains usable on a real
> > Geode running FreeBSD?
> > 
> > Others,
> > Feedback and testing is extremely welcome. If this looks good to
> > everyone, I'd merge Gaetan's changes and release the result as Geode
> > 2.11.13 sometimes by early December. Until then, if anyone has more
> > fixes for outstanding issues to provide, please send them to the list
> > ASAP so we can decide upon merging them soon.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > Martin-Éric
> 


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