Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:58:38 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: New proposed DRM interface design |
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On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:54:06AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > Just out of interest, what would the scenario be if you do if you could > > get a compatible driver? > > you just grab a DRI snapshot which contains new userspace and DRM, and > install it... it builds the DRM against your current kernel, now if your > current kernel has a DRM module built-in which is a different version, you > are screwed, snapshot process breaks..
So they are just building an external driver for the kernel. No binary compatibility - and maybe a thin compat layer. Not a big deal to maintain - only a small diff to latest kernel tree.
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