Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre6 drm-4.0 | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:12:40 -0800 (PST) | From | (Barry K. Nathan) |
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> Linus ditched drm 4.0 months ago. It only survives in arch add on > patches like ia64 and in -ac trees.
No, it also survives as an add-on tarball for the standard kernel: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/drm-4.0.x.tar.bz2
Let me dig through my old mail so I can quote Linus on this... Here's what he said in his Linux 2.4.8 announcement message (Subject "Linux-2.4.8", sent on August 10th of this year):
> Ok, this one has various VM niceness tweaks that have made some people > much happier. It also does a upgrade to the XFree86-4.1.x style DRM code, > which means that people with XFree86-4.0.x can no longer use the built-in > kernel DRM by default. > > However, never fear. It's actually very easy to get the old DRM code too: > if you used to use the standard kernel DRM and do not want to upgrade to a > new XFree86 setup, just get the "drm-4.0.x" package from the same place > you get the kernel from, and do > > - unpack the kernel > - cd linux/drivers/char > - unpack the "drm-4.0.x" package here > - mv drm new-drm > - mv drm-4.0.x drm > > and you should be all set.
The impression I get (for 2.4) is that DRM 4.1 comes standard but you should still be able to use 4.0 if you want, via that tarball.
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