Intel's DRM Gains DisplayPort Capabilities

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's DRM Gains DisplayPort Capabilities

Keith Packard of Intel has mailed out seventeen new patches to those on the dri-devel mailing list. In this latest round of work, Keith brings support for DisplayPort connections to the Intel DRM i915 driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzMwMA

[Louise]

Does Intel have a feature matrix like AMD have?

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

[whizse]

From a quick look, it would seem the only thing missing on the Intel side would be Gallium compliance, which supposedly is very much WIP?

And of course, massive amounts of bugfixing and performance tuning :)

[Flynn]

Is it already integrated into the drivers standard git tree so that I can easily test it through ubuntus xorg-edgers ppa (karmic x64)? If not, does anyone know when it will be merged?

I'd love to get the DisplayPort connection working on my Foxconn G45M-S + HP LP2475w configuration.