Just a quick note about the upstream direction for Intel gfx...
The -intel driver has support for i810 and forward chips. Some laptops with i845 chips will need a fairly recent driver update to get support for their panels, but at least some people have reported that these work today.
There are no plans to keep up with -i810. All pre-855 support should be present in -intel (and therefore any bugs found should be filed against -intel to get correct attention).
Just a quick note about the upstream direction for Intel gfx...
The -intel driver has support for i810 and forward chips. Some laptops with i845 chips will need a fairly recent driver update to get support for their panels, but at least some people have reported that these work today.
There are no plans to keep up with -i810. All pre-855 support should be present in -intel (and therefore any bugs found should be filed against -intel to get correct attention).