Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:59:10 +0100 (IST) | From | Dave Airlie <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] DRM changes for 2.6.17 |
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> Can you describe what that means more? > > Does it mean that people with old X versions will lose hw acceleration? > For which chips?
No it means people with old X versions won't try to enable hw accel on cards that their X.org doesn't suppport...
The X.org drivers with respect to r300 drivers are highly experimental and enabled DRI on r300 by default before they should, when I added the r300 PCI IDs as I tried last time, lots of people crashed and you backed out the changes... so now the kernel isn't going to to trigger those problems, as all of the new r300 class cards require using a new Xorg driver to enable DRI..
Its the only way I can think off to get the r300 PCI ids into the kernel and not break current systems... there is nothing I can do in the DRM to fix the Xorg DDX stupidity..
Dave.
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG
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