[coreboot] coccinelle project for i915 graphics driver for coreboot
ron minnich
rminnich at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 02:09:58 CEST 2012
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> 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
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