Intel Rewrites Mode-Setting Graphics Driver Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Rewrites Mode-Setting Graphics Driver Code

A set of 58 patches have been published against the Intel Linux DRM kernel driver that completely rewrites the mode-setting code for this open-source Linux graphics driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE2Mzc

[mark45]

Intel devs must wear sun glasses while working cause their driver already shines.

[Redi44]

Intel devs must wear sun glasses while working cause their driver already shines.

EPIC line

And it indeed does

[TechMage89]

Hopefully this will fix the intermittent mode-set problem I have on my laptop where the screen goes blank on mode-set during boot, and I have to restart a few times to get any display past mode-set.

[hisbug]

When I recently shopped for a new laptop, I only considered models shipping with Intel graphics due to Intel's stellar support of free software. When my friend recently bought his new laptop, he ended up getting an Intel-based system for the same reason.

Thank you Intel for continuing to lead by example. I will happily throw money your way as a result.

[ryszardzonk]

does that mean that below patches are irrelevant?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/016556.html

Do you guys know if they have been merged to the current linux tree at same point?

[uid313]

This might be a stupid question, but what is Fastboot?

[bridgman]

This might be a stupid question, but what is Fastboot?

Daniel was nice enough to give a definition at the end of his blog post :

The hw state readout code prepares (but there are still big pieces missing) for fastboot, i.e. avoiding the inital modeset at boot-up and just taking over the configuration left behind by the bios.

[uid313]

Daniel was nice enough to give a definition at the end of his blog post :

Oh, but my BIOS boots in like 80x25 (columns, rows) text-mode which looks fuggly as shit.
I want my BIOS to boot in 1900x1200.

[GreatEmerald]

Well, my UEFI boots to something like 1280x960, which is still not quite 1080p that is native to my display...