Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.6-ac3 | Date | Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:31:27 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> the 3 parts are changed for the fun of it. Granted, issues of backwards > compatibility haven't been handled well in the past, but with the next > resync I believe that moving forward this will no longer be a problem. > You'd have to talk to the guys at VA about this, however.
Right but we cannot go around breaking support for older setups. A user updating their 2.4.x stable kernel and finding X11 no longer works simply isnt an acceptable situation for serious users.
> Portability and maintainability were certainly two motivating factors in > the move to a templated architecture for the core DRM. I just got sick > of seeing the same code in every driver -- kinda defeats the purpose of
Why was so much of it macroised rather than turned into library routines ?
> having a "core" DRM if it isn't being used... New drivers are much > easier to write as well, which is a nice side-effect.
That I can believe
Alan
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