Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:04:16 +0100 (IST) | From | Dave Airlie <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] agp patches for 2.6.28-rc1. |
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> Hm. But still, there is at least one distribution (ubuntu intrepid) which will > propably will ship 2.4.1 in its stable version soon (it seems unlikely that > they will update to an unstable version just before an release). > Which means, that this driver will get quite some spread...
Intel will give the fixes to Ubuntu to roll into 2.4.x hopefully.
> Is it accepted that the kernel abi breaks that radically/fast? >
The problem is this isn't a kernel ABI at all. This is two pieces of code which are doing the exact same thing to a piece of hardware, one from the kernel and one from userspace. When they disagree things break, however sometimes when they agree things are broken. . The solution is proper kernel graphics drivers, however that future is further away.
Dave.
> Andres > >
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