From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] agp patches for 2.6.28-rc1.
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:18:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810200318.37337.andres@anarazel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.82.0810200202270.27788@skynet.skynet.ie>
Hi,
On Monday 20 October 2008 03:04:16 Dave Airlie wrote:
> > Hm. But still, there is at least one distribution (ubuntu intrepid) which
> > will propably will ship 2.4.1 in its stable version soon (it seems
> > unlikely that they will update to an unstable version just before an
> > release). Which means, that this driver will get quite some spread...
> Intel will give the fixes to Ubuntu to roll into 2.4.x hopefully.
I opened a bugreport on their bugtracker to make them aware of the issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/286182
> > Is it accepted that the kernel abi breaks that radically/fast?
> The problem is this isn't a kernel ABI at all. This is two pieces of code
> which are doing the exact same thing to a piece of hardware, one from the
> kernel and one from userspace. When they disagree things break, however
> sometimes when they agree things are broken.
Hm, I understand what you are saying, but I don't see a fundamental difference
to an ABI here. But it doesn't matter anyway...
Andres
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 6:59 [git pull] agp patches for 2.6.28-rc1 Dave Airlie
2008-10-19 23:11 ` Andres Freund
2008-10-19 23:25 ` Dave Airlie
2008-10-19 23:44 ` Andres Freund
2008-10-20 0:19 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-20 0:34 ` Andres Freund
2008-10-20 1:00 ` Andres Freund
2008-10-20 1:04 ` Dave Airlie
2008-10-20 1:18 ` Andres Freund [this message]
2008-10-20 1:35 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-20 1:58 ` Andres Freund
2008-10-20 2:19 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-20 2:27 ` Andres Freund
2008-10-20 9:50 ` Andres Freund
2008-10-20 10:29 ` Andres Freund
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