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From: Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@i.am>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.6-ac3
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:19:00 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B543B44.3004B185@i.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15Lnrk-00047x-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > the 3 parts are changed for the fun of it.  Granted, issues of backwards
> > compatibility haven't been handled well in the past, but with the next
> > resync I believe that moving forward this will no longer be a problem.
> > You'd have to talk to the guys at VA about this, however.
> 
> Right but we cannot go around breaking support for older setups. A user
> updating their 2.4.x stable kernel and finding X11 no longer works simply isnt
> an acceptable situation for serious users.

Well only acceleration would not work as far as I know.
And if the user is tracking kernel development he probably also have
Xfree4.1
on his box.

I really think drm should be upgraded sooner than in 2.5 kernel.

kabi

BTW - will we ever see Vertical Blank Interrupt driver ?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-17 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-14 17:36 Linux 2.4.6-ac3 Alan Cox
2001-07-14 20:01 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2001-07-14 20:05   ` Alan Cox
2001-07-15  1:45     ` Gareth Hughes
2001-07-15 13:12       ` Alan Cox
2001-07-15 14:01         ` Gareth Hughes
2001-07-15 15:31           ` Alan Cox
2001-07-16  1:29             ` 4.1.0 DRM (was Re: Linux 2.4.6-ac3) Gareth Hughes
2001-07-16  1:51               ` Keith Owens
2001-07-16  2:07                 ` Gareth Hughes
2001-07-16 11:23               ` John Cavan
2001-07-16 11:39                 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-16 18:00                   ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-07-16 18:12                     ` Xavier Bestel
2001-07-16 18:32                       ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-07-16 18:42                     ` John Cavan
2001-07-16 19:32                       ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-07-16 19:34                         ` Xavier Bestel
2001-07-16 20:18                           ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-07-17  2:37                             ` Gareth Hughes
2001-07-17  8:31                           ` Mike A. Harris
2001-07-16 19:49                         ` John Cavan
2001-07-17  7:19                     ` 4.1.0 DRM Mike A. Harris
2001-07-17  5:28               ` 4.1.0 DRM (was Re: Linux 2.4.6-ac3) Juan Quintela
2001-07-18  9:06                 ` Gareth Hughes
2001-07-18 16:21                   ` Juan Quintela
2001-07-18 13:30                 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-07-17 13:19             ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2001-07-15  1:31 ` Linux 2.4.6-ac3 - some unresolved Eyal Lebedinsky
2001-07-15 13:09   ` Alan Cox

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