[OE-core] [for-danny][PATCH] xf86-video-modesetting: new recipe for gma500

Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kamble at intel.com
Fri Feb 8 20:39:06 UTC 2013


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.burton at intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 4:10 AM
> To: Koen Kooi
> Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org; Kamble, Nitin A; Richard
> Purdie
> Subject: Re: [for-danny][PATCH] xf86-video-modesetting: new recipe for
> gma500
> 
> On 8 February 2013 12:01, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > The GMA500 comment is very misleading, this is just a recipe for yet-
> another-ddx that only gets installed when you ask for it :) What the commit
> forgets to mention is that it's a ddx for any DRM based kernel display driver, I
> need it for beagleboard, beaglebone which don't use gma500 and also for fri2
> which does use gma500.
> 
> Indeed, it's the new fbdev. Death to fbdev!
> 
> Ross
I had brought in the modesetting driver just for gma500, and glad to see more use of it.
BTW FRI2 does not & cannot use the gma500 driver. 

Nitin



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