Hi, a main difficulty is that illumos lacks some kms bits. Also the intel linux drm driver was refactored about 4 years ago and has diverged considerably from our code base. I have spent some time reorganizing the code base last year to match Linux without introducing functional changes. This could help incremental changes. Unfortunately I am not able to contribute to OI for now so I won't have time to integrate this. One could use the xorg-testing repository to push and test incremental changes. That's how minor chnages to the X stack have been shared in the past.
On 2/9/19, Stephan Althaus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > For my personal like - and for a better acceptance of the oi-distro in > the world ;-) > i would like to update the (intel) graphics drivers to a recent state. > > it seems to me that this is not an easy job to do, > as at a quick look these files are at minimum related: > > gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h > gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/drm/drm_pciids.h > gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/intel/io/i915/i915_drv.c > gfx-drm/usr/src/common/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.75/intel/intel_chipset.h > illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/i915_drv.h > illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/drm_pciids.h > illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h > xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/intel_driver.h > xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/i915_pciids.h > xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/xvmc/i915_xvmc.h > > ... broad spread and some files are 'old' ... > > I am a beginner, but also would like to provide some help (minimum at > testing) > - i dont know the right way how to achieve the goal. > where should i start? what are the steps? > Someone willing to act as a mentor?? > > All hints and opinions are welcome :-) > > Thanks for listening! > > Greetings, > Stephan > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
