Re: intel 2700 register values

Richard Bateman wrote:

> I think (hope) that we have all the info we need to write our own
> graphics drivers for the chip. I don't know enough about opengl to
> find out, though.

Here's the high-level overview:

http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIintro.html#s5

We need a DRM first and foremost (but that seems relatively easy):
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM

And we need a Mesa driver:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDriver

> I do have framebuffer working, using the "vsfb.c" framebuffer (Very
> Simple Framebuffer), which just maps a framebuffer to video ram, and
> does no initializing or anything.

That's great! We can run (unaccelerated) X now:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xfbdev.1.html

Is there a CVS/SVN repository for X50v work, for people who want to
follow along at home?

    -Michael Robinson
Received on Thu Jun 30 2005 - 02:22:43 EDT