Intel KMS driver

Open source driver by Oracle:

• S11: https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/oracle/x-cons/x-s11-update-clone/file/221e9d9cc9cb/open-src/kernel
• S12: https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/oracle/x-cons/x-s12-clone/file/50bc46483f90/open-src/kernel

Relevant code is located in drm and i915 subfolders.

Martin Bochnig, creator of OpenSXCE, has backported the S12 driver to illumos, links to debug binaries in this email (mirrored as attachments to this page):

• http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2016-January/004059.html
• i915 -> /kernel/drv/amd64/
• drm_gem_kms -> /kernel/misc/amd64

Instructions:

00.) cd /tmp
01.) wget http://opensxce/kms/01__GLOBAL/01__BINS/TAR/proto__root_i386.tar.bz2
02.) wget http://opensxce/kms/01__GLOBAL/01__BINS/TAR/proto__root_i386.tar.bz2__MD5SUM.txt
03.) su -
04.) beadm create MyNewBE
05.) beadm activate MyNewBE
06.) beadm mount MyNewBE /a
07.) cd /a
08.) bzcat /tmp/proto__root_i386.tar.bz2|tar xvf -
09.) This README assumes that the old /kernel/drv/amd64/i915 was already add_drv'ed before, 
     if not, `add_drv -R /a i915` now

References

Alan Coopersmith pointed to the following documents regarding DRI/KMS: 

• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Solaris-DRM-KMS-2015
• http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2015/Program/#Fishel_status_drm_i915_solaris
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
• http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting
• http://lanyrd.com/topics/x-window-system

Additionally, information about driver development:

• http://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/
• http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/01/i915gem-crashcourse-overview.html
• blog posts from the i915 Linux maintainer http://blog.ffwll.ch/

Known Issues

SNA

May causes segmentation fault if enabled. If so, just disable SNA and you can copy attached 20-intel-uxa.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/.

Testing