[meta-intel] Why meta-intel never specify the Intel-SNA as a primary Xorg driver in common folder ?

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Apr 16 04:06:58 PDT 2015


On 16 April 2015 at 07:05, Ahmad, Mohd Azril <mohd.azril.ahmad at intel.com>
wrote:

> Actually my main concern here is why we need to boot up X11 MatchBox with
> multiple video’s module (intel, vesa & fbdev) while we can fix this to only
> load “intel” during the X startup ? I guess this looks more proper and
> clean way of using the pure “intel” driver right ? (please correct me if
> I’m wrong) ..
>

meta-intel doesn't set the X driver to be intel explicitly because there's
no reason to.  The overhead of loading fbdev and modesettings is
insignificant and not all machines supported by the meta-intel BSP use the
intel driver, some actually need the modesettings driver.

Ross
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