From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bk pull] DRM tree - stop i830/i915 in kernel
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:57:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040829115711.GC23428@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28148.203.122.194.204.1093780542.squirrel@www.csn.ul.ie>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:55:42PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> >
> > please don't do this.
> > This makes it not possible for distributions to ship kernels that need
> > to work on both old and new X versions....
> >
>
> no, it'll stop distributions from shipping kernels with both drivers
> built-in, modular kernels will work fine, X picks the driver to load, if
> people are building in the drivers then I believe they know what they are
> at...
>
> Having both drivers built-in is obviously broken and actually doesn't work
> at all (someone reported it in an Xorg bug...)
ok fair enough; ignore my objection
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-29 11:22 [bk pull] DRM tree - stop i830/i915 in kernel Dave Airlie
2004-08-29 11:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-29 11:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-29 12:01 ` Dave Airlie
2004-08-29 11:55 ` Dave Airlie
2004-08-29 11:57 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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