Re: status of DRM_MGA on x86_64

[Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de>]

Dave Airlie writes:
 > 
 > Ian, can you look at this I think you are the best person (maybe
 > Keithw) to tell whether this stuff breaks compat in any direction,.
 > Egbert you may not want to lobby for it but all I personally want to
 > know is what it might potentially break in terms of backwards
 > compatiblity.... from SuSEs point of view as long as a distro is
 > consistent then you are okay, for us the whole keeping DRIs built
 > against older kernels working with newer kernels is the only real
 > issue...

Right. I know. I've looked into this.
I thought I had fixed the last remaining backward compatibility 
between kernel and DRI (libraries and Xserver) by adding compatibility
ioctls. 
I still plan to revisit this issue and see if I can modify the code 
such that I don't need those compatibility ioctls.

 > 
 > Hopefully Ian can look at the patch and decide on it....
 > 

OK. An earlier version is in the freedesktop CVS (#943). If you want 
I make a port to the DRI head. Unfortunately I probably won't be able 
to get at it for the next 2 - 3 weeks.


	Egbert.