Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:25:35 +0100 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: New proposed DRM interface design |
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On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:23:35AM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Actually regulat users do. And they do by pulling an uptodate kernel or > > using a vendor kernel with backports. This model would work for video drivers > > aswell. > > Sure, explain to me how I should upgrade my RH-9 system to work on my new i915?
Download a new kernel.org kernel or petition the fedora legacy folks to include a drm update. The last release RH-9 kernel has various security and data integrity issues anyway, so you'd be a fool to keep running it.
> However, introducing a new binary interface isn't going to magically transform > a fairly neglected codebase into a sparkly new one. All I can really see it > doing is saving a few K of memory in the hetrogenous dual head case. Oh, and > introducing a new failure mode to be debugged at a distance.
huh? it you change the ABI your modules simply won't load. that's not exactly what I'd call debugging.
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