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    SubjectRe: New proposed DRM interface design
    Dave Airlie wrote:
    >>Let me be clear that I am unwilling to support changes to the DRM that break
    >>it's usability on other operating systems on principle.
    >
    >
    > I'm in agreement on that, ...
    >
    >>Maybe it's time to consider a fork of the DRM to allow a major experimentation
    >>of the form Jon envisages to proceed without worrying about boring constraints
    >>like keeping BSD working, backwards compatibility, etc. And the current DRM
    >>architecture, which is pretty much stabilized, can continue to do those boring
    >>tasks, and accumulate new drivers, until GNULonghorn is finished...
    >
    >
    > I think it might be an idea myself, but not at this stage, I think a month
    > or two from now it might be a better time, if we get an agreeable
    > re-design done, then I'd be willing to let a fork proceed from that point,
    > so that at least the DRMs are all coming from the same point,

    This seems a good plan.

    > I think we should hold off on putting 2d stuff into the 3d drivers until
    > the DRM is rearchitected into a nice clean stable system that is actually
    > liked by kernel developers :-), I'm pushing the second set of macros
    > removals to Linus over the next week, along with experimenting on a
    > core/library tree...

    Thanks for the great work you're putting into this, it's very much
    appreciated. Apologies for my pre-morning-coffee grumpiness...

    Keith
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