From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756830Ab0CEBQi (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:16:38 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:37908 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753270Ab0CEBQa (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:16:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:16:27 +0100 From: Luc Verhaegen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 Message-ID: <20100305011627.GA524@skynet.be> References: <20100304105624.70fe845e@jbarnes-piketon> <21d7e9971003041125x1aee3b3ew1e407ca6695e10fc@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9971003041406n53d9cae0h53374abf3dca494e@mail.gmail.com> <1267748927.3496.6.camel@nisroch> <20100305005617.GA31883@skynet.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:08:00PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > > > libdrm is composed of the main libdrm, and several driver specific > > libdrms today (... and libkms, yes). > > It's actually not libdrm that is the primary issue, I'm sorry for saying > that. > > It's the nouveau_drv.so thing - the actual X driver. > > Anyway, since I had looked at the libdrm sources, I had most of this on my > machine anyway, so I've compiled it all, and am going to reboot and see if > I can make a few symlinks work. > > IOW, right now I have this: > > [root@nehalem ~]# cd /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ > [root@nehalem drivers]# ll nouveau_drv.so* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-03-04 17:00 nouveau_drv.so -> nouveau_drv.so-0.0.16 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 343784 2010-03-04 16:59 nouveau_drv.so-0.0.15 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1698805 2010-03-04 16:59 nouveau_drv.so-0.0.16 > > and I'll see if that works (yeah, yeah, I didn't strip the thing, and > it's compiled with whatever defaults that probably include debugging too, > so it's huge). > > Quite frankly, I still think that I shouldn't have to play these kinds of > games. I think the versioning should be built in. And I still think that > "staging" is not an excuse for "it's bad crap, and we don't care" > > Linus In an ideal world, you shouldn't be forced to update anything except some/all of the driver bits. But the fact that libdrm is lumped together as it is, and that mesa is a monolith, forces you to update a more significant portion of your system. You have to resort to some serious manual labour to get around that atm. Luc Verhaegen.