26 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Currently, there have no GMA500(Poulsbo) native video driver to support
    intel opregion. So, use this stub driver to enable the acpi backlight
    control sysfs entry files by requrest acpi_video_register.

    [airlied: fix warnings]

    Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie

    Lee, Chun-Yi
     

10 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • Background:
    Graphic devices are accessed through ranges in I/O or memory space. While most
    modern devices allow relocation of such ranges, some "Legacy" VGA devices
    implemented on PCI will typically have the same "hard-decoded" addresses as
    they did on ISA. For more details see "PCI Bus Binding to IEEE Std 1275-1994
    Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware Revision 2.1"
    Section 7, Legacy Devices.

    The Resource Access Control (RAC) module inside the X server currently does
    the task of arbitration when more than one legacy device co-exists on the same
    machine. But the problem happens when these devices are trying to be accessed
    by different userspace clients (e.g. two server in parallel). Their address
    assignments conflict. Therefore an arbitration scheme _outside_ of the X
    server is needed to control the sharing of these resources. This document
    introduces the operation of the VGA arbiter implemented for Linux kernel.

    Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie
    Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes

    Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     

14 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • With the coming of kernel based modesetting and the memory manager stuff,
    the everything in one directory approach was getting very ugly and
    starting to be unmanageable.

    This restructures the drm along the lines of other kernel components.

    It creates a drivers/gpu/drm directory and moves the hw drivers into
    subdirectores. It moves the includes into an include/drm, and
    sets up the unifdef for the userspace headers we should be exporting.

    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie

    Dave Airlie