Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre6 drm-4.0

[Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>]

>>>>> "marcelo" = Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:

marcelo> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:13:15AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
>> > In my opinion it's extremely bad style to remove drm-4.0 from the 2.4
>> > kernel (remember, it's supposed to be a *stable* kernel series).
>> 
>> Agreed.  Stil I don't think specific ports should fix that up - this
>> will sooner or later leed to a full fork.
>> 
>> > As
>> > far as I know, there are binary-only drivers out there that work only
>> > with drm-4.0.  I don't think it's fair to break someones working setup
>> > just because of a kernel upgrade.
>> 
>> _Any_ kernel update may break binary drivers.
>> 
>> > But if there is a good reason to remove it, I'm certainly willing to
>> > listen.  My understanding is that for Keith it's good enough if
>> > drm-4.0 goes away in 2.5.
>> 
>> My opinion is that including the drm changes in the ia64 patch just makes
>> the diff to handle much bigger.
>> 
>> Marcelo, are you willing to put in drm 4.0 as option in 2.4.18 again?

marcelo> Why would I ? 

marcelo> What is wrong with the current drm version ? 

That you need to have XFree 4.1 installed, if you have XFree4.0, then
you can't have drm :(

Yes, that drm is incompatible sucks :(

Later, Juan.

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