GMA500

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 01:47:34PM -0500, Bodhi Zazen wrote:
> There is support for the intel GMA500 in the staging drivers. It offers decent 2d support, but not 3d.
> 
> The driver is close to being in the main stream kernel, so I would like to request it be build as a module.
> 
> There is one "SNAFU" , the staging driver, psb_gfx, conflicts with the "polusbo" kernel module (CONFIG_STUB_POULSBO=m)
> 
> So if you enable the staging driver, you need to disable the CONFIG_STUB_POULSBO=m
> 
> CONFIG_STUB_POULSBO=n
> CONFIG_DRM=y # or module
> CONFIG_DRM_PSB=m
> 
> The name of the staging driver varies, in the 3.2.0-rc3 it is DRM_PSB (I think similar names in other, older kernels as well).
> 
> With those (small) configuration changes the GMA500 , 2d graphics will work out of the box (rather then having X fail).
> 
> To be honest, I do not think the STUB_POULSBO is used by any other hardware.

This was discussed on IRC and enabled last Friday.  The email was held
up in the moderation queue.  FYI.

josh