Kernel Mode-Setting

[Andy Whitcroft]

>From a good trawl about on the web I think the concensus is that the
main support for Kernel Mode-Settings is going to targetting the 2.6.29
merge window.  The first bit of foundations appears to have or be
planned to hit the 2.6.28 release; GMM the memory management layer seems
to be in.

The nearest to something readable was here:
	http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjgyNA

According to Fedora they will have some real support in fc10:

	https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting

The patches seem to be out there for review but not small.  Cirtainly
not trivial backport territory.

	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200810301408.36043.jbarnes%40virtuousgeek.org&forum_name=dri-devel

It should also be noted, that to get any sort of benefits from the KMS
you need to have updated x server binaries for all supported platforms
and likely to have switched from usplash to Plymouth.  So totally a big
transition.

-apw