Re: [coreboot] coccinelle project for i915 graphics driver for coreboot

[ron minnich]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
This has been done for Geode vga.  I'm not familiar
> with the i915 chipset, but there's a chance that you just need to copy
> the C initialization code over.

no, it's quite complex, especially when you take the aux/ddc channel
into account and all the other fun bits. It's not a simple
framebuffer.
> Not sure the above would help here.  If the vga support is needed just
> for early debug printing, what's the gain in closely tracking
> upstream?

Because the upstream comes with bugs too, and we've seen them a lot in
our systems.

ron