Phoronix: Intel Driver Gets DRI2, KMS Approaching
Times are already exciting within the X.Org development community thanks to the Graphics Execution Manager entering Linux 2.6.28 and the release of X Server 1.6 quickly approaching, but still there's more good news to report this week. The Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2 support has entered the mainline xf86-video-intel driver and DRM mode-setting (commonly referred to as kernel mode-setting) has appeared in the drm-intel-next branch. Intel's driver has worked with DRI2 already, but now it's finally entering their mainline tree to appear in Intel's next driver release (xf86-video-intel 2.6)...
Times are already exciting within the X.Org development community thanks to the Graphics Execution Manager entering Linux 2.6.28 and the release of X Server 1.6 quickly approaching, but still there's more good news to report this week. The Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2 support has entered the mainline xf86-video-intel driver and DRM mode-setting (commonly referred to as kernel mode-setting) has appeared in the drm-intel-next branch. Intel's driver has worked with DRI2 already, but now it's finally entering their mainline tree to appear in Intel's next driver release (xf86-video-intel 2.6)...
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