From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753816Ab0CEBXM (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:23:12 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60849 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751357Ab0CEBXK (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:23:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:22:30 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Luc Verhaegen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 In-Reply-To: <20100305011627.GA524@skynet.be> Message-ID: References: <20100304105624.70fe845e@jbarnes-piketon> <21d7e9971003041125x1aee3b3ew1e407ca6695e10fc@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9971003041406n53d9cae0h53374abf3dca494e@mail.gmail.com> <1267748927.3496.6.camel@nisroch> <20100305005617.GA31883@skynet.be> <20100305011627.GA524@skynet.be> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > 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. Ok, that probably explains my messy screen and failure with the above simplistic approach - I didn't do the whole mesa thing, I just did the drivers. Linus