Enable the i810 driver?

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 03:17 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:23:45AM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:39:47PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:39:10PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > > > 5.3 failed to recognize my video card and I tracked it down to this
> > > > patch:
> > > >
> > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/redhat/xorg-x11-6.7.0-6/xor
> > > >g-x11-6.7.0-AMD64-enable-i810-driver.patch
> > >
> > > I'm courious why enabling an Intel on-board video driver would fix your
> > > problem on an AMD64 system.
> >
> > I thought EM64T based systems are on-topic on this list.
> > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html
>
> They are on-topic.
>
> But my knowledge of the i810 video driver is that it is to drive the
> video on Intel's i810 and i815 Pentium-3 motherboards.  Those certainly
> can't accept an EM64T CPU.  So I'm puzzled what piece of hardware, in a
> platform that FreeBSD/AMD64 runs on, that could need this driver.
>
> src/sys/conf/files.amd64 revision 1.46 removed pci/agp_i810.c under these
> assumptions.  Were they wrong and I should add pci/agp_i810.c back?

The i810 actually drives up to i830 now, and will eventually be replaced by a 
driver that does i810 up through i915 and i925 (the latest PCI express 
chipsets with onboard graphics IIRC).

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