Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel

Dave Jones
2003-09-08T18:42:33Z

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:18:01PM +0000, Stian Jordet wrote:
> man, 08.09.2003 kl. 18.05 skrev Mika Liljeberg:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just in case anyone is interested, ATI has released version 3.2.5 of
> > their FireGL driver for XFree86. The driver supports all their high end
> > graphics cards. This is the first version that has DRM support for the
> > 2.6 series of kernels.
>
> Well.. Not really :)
>
> chevrolet:/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x# make
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.0-test4/build
> SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test4'
> make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
> *** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
> *** inconsistencies
> CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o
> CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/nvidia-agp.o
> CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.o
> CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/i7505-agp.o
> CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o

Comedy. So the story so far..

- ATI grab 2.4.16's AGP driver.
- Working AGP3 support happens in 2.5
- ATI gets backported to 2.4 and 'munged'.
- Additional fixes go into 2.5
- ATI forwardport their trainwreck to 2.6.

It shouldn't have *any* need whatsoever to touch agpgart in 2.6.

The mind truly boggles.

Dave

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