From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
sreedhara.ds@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPC driver for Intel Mobile Internet Device (MID) platforms
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:22:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100426162202.GA11755@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100426163958.2b5f16b7@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 04:39:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The case I'm worried about is where the graphics driver never gets
> > into a mergable state and we end up with a pile of mainline code that
> > can't sanely run on the hardware. As long as the plan is to get it to
> > avoid duplicating the entire Intel modesetting code and including its
> > own TTM then that seems fair enough, but Intel's track record on this
> > side of things hasn't been great.
>
> I don't track the public DRM lists but the last I saw on that on the
> archives was Keith Packard blocking patches to enable such a merge.
> You'd have to ask him about it. On the acceleration side mrst/psb
> graphics are not i9xx style.
I'm really not terribly comfortable merging enabling code for an
architecture if there's no clear plan for merging critical parts of that
architecture.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-26 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-23 14:30 [PATCH] IPC driver for Intel Mobile Internet Device (MID) platforms Alan Cox
2010-04-26 15:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-26 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-26 15:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-26 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-26 16:22 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-26 16:28 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-26 17:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-26 17:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-05-07 18:25 ` Matthew Garrett
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2010-04-21 12:25 Alan Cox
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