Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-30T16:51:18Z

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 02:25 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Jacob Braun <jwbraun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, kriko <kristjan.ugrin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I would try the new cfs how it performs, but it seems that nvidia drivers
> > > doesn't compile successfully under 2.6.23-rc1.
> > > http://files.myopera.com/kriko/files/nvidia-installer.log
> > >
> > > If someone has the solution, please share.
> >
> > There is a patch for the nvidia drivers here:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=125959
>
> The ATI drivers (current 8.39.4) were broken by
> commit e21ea246bce5bb93dd822de420172ec280aed492
> Author: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
>
> Bad call on the "nobody was using these", Martin :(

Nobody in the upstream kernel did, and that is what matters. If you care
about your kernel code get it upstream.

As for breaking binary crap, thats a bonus. Break them hard, break them
often.

Kudos to Martin.