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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Thomas Richter <richter@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: VGA1 output no longer detected on IBM R31/i830
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:59:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140616175901.GC5821@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <539DF649.5060406@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 09:38:49PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote:
> Am 15.06.2014 14:26, schrieb Ville Syrjälä:
> 
> >We all know nightly is rather broken with 830. Nothing new here. I
> >suggest just trying my alm_fixes5 branch.
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but there is something I do not get. There are patches
> that are tested and working. Having them in an off-side repository does not
> help users at all, so what stops anyone from either applying these patches
> to the kernel, or alternatively removing the 830/845 support from the
> current i915 driver and create a separate i830 driver from the current
> sources with the patches applied?
> 
> The linux i830 kernel support should be working, and not in the broken state
> it is right now - the current state of the affair is not very helpful.
> 
> Thanks for keeping the repository, but that's not a solution, at least not
> for most of the remaining users of old hardware.

Repositories with patches are normal procedures until those patches are
properly tested and reviewed. I don't just merge random stuff.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-16 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-15 12:16 VGA1 output no longer detected on IBM R31/i830 Thomas Richter
2014-06-15 12:26 ` Ville Syrjälä
2014-06-15 19:38   ` Thomas Richter
2014-06-16 17:59     ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2014-06-16 19:22       ` Thomas Richter

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