Want to learn about i915 and Intel Graphic Graphics H/W driver

[journeyer]

Hello,

I have been trying to develop some special set-top-box system with
donut-x86.
Because the target system is set-top-box, I need to know the rendering
architecture of donut-x86(latest better).
Could someone help me to understand how android-x86 renders it's
graphics to the monitor?
What is i915 driver? I guess i915 is some kernel module which provides
KMS feature. And the screen size it supports is up-to 1280 by 800.

I need to make a set-top-box which is able to render graphics on a
screen 1920 by 1080 (HD).
In an architectural point of view, there goes an application on
opencore engine, the opencore engine outputs the movie to the surface
flinger, surface flinger should use the frame buffer memory on a GPU
(Intel maybe).
Then is i915 the frame buffer driver? If not, then, what is the driver
for the graphic HW(should be Intel)?

Please guide me...

Thank you very much.

[Al Sutton]

First off; Can I suggest you use Froyo not Donut. Donut is part of the 1.x branch of Android which is rapidly considered by many application developers to be out of date and isn't supported by many applications.

The i915 driver is the Linux kernel module. For more information on how Android handles displays you should refer to http://source.android.com/porting/display_drivers.html

Al.

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[journeyer]

I really appreciate you for your kindness.
With your point I believe I would soon find my way.
Thank you very much.

Jeonghum

On 12월9일, 오후5시06분, Al Sutton <alsut...@android-x86.org> wrote:
> First off; Can I suggest you use Froyo not Donut. Donut is part of the 1.x branch of Android which is rapidly considered by many application developers to be out of date and isn't supported by many applications.
>

> The i915 driver is the Linux kernel module. For more information on how Android handles displays you should refer tohttp://source.android.com/porting/display_drivers.html