Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Gene Heskett
2008-02-15T09:28:50Z

On Friday 15 February 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:32:02 EST, Gene Heskett said:
>> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are
>> appearing to indicate its not a problem until some distro actually ships a
>> kernel with the changes that broke it. That could be months or even a
>> year plus.
>
>Actually following the NVidia forums indicates otherwise:
>
>http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=107144
>
>I expect Zander will be posting a patch rather soonish, for some value of
>soonish. And if you're running a -rc or -mm kernel, patching the 169.09
>drivers should be well within your abilities....

Not so for the binaries, existing patches do make it compile but it still
upchucks someplace in the binary, or was this time yesterday.

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