What's the status of drm?

[TechMage89]

I am very interested in DRM modesetting. Are there any plans to migrate radeon or radeonhd modesetting code to DRM? Are there plans to make a DRM-modesetting based kernel framebuffer driver? It would eliminate a lot of headaches in the graphics system for people using both the console and X. It would also be a step closer to a unified, X-independant graphics system.

I would work on this myself, but without better documentation, DRM looks like a very confusing prospect. Hopefully the new docs AMD is releasing will help some, but I wish the DRM architecture itself were better documented.

[bridgman]

Jerome Glisse pushed his sample code for kernel modesetting on R300 a couple of weeks ago. Adding support for newer ASICs is on his todo list :

http://jglisse.livejournal.com/852.html

You might want to ping Jerome and see if there are areas where you could help. It would be a great way to learn.