On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:05:59AM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote: >Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> >> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Gareth Hughes wrote: >> >> > > The assumption was only made for experimental GATOS drivers. It is a >> > > practical one. More people come and ask: "I upgraded to GATOS driver and >> > > DRI won't work anymore !" Answer: RTFM, upgrade drm driver. >> > >> > It's already been determined that: >> > >> > "I just upgraded my kernel, and DRI won't work anymore!" >> > "RTFM, upgrade your X server" >> > >> > "I just upgraded my X server, and DRI doesn't work anymore!" >> > "RTFM, upgrade your kernel" >> > >> > just doesn't cut it. You aren't allowed to do anything that >> > requires a response of "RTFM, upgrade ..." >> > >> > Start thinking of alternatives... >> >> Gareth, the current driver is broken. If someone wants to use video >> capture they _need_ both GATOS 2d driver and GATOS drm driver, period. >> >> What's so wrong about upgrading ? >> >> Also, I can make drm driver work nice with older 2d drivers - as soon as >> someone will show me a way to tell the version of the 2d driver that is >> accessing the drm driver. > >Perhaps you should assume it is the older version until you know otherwise.
I agree. I think it would be useful to have a way for the 2D driver to tell the drm driver what version it is, but if a 2D driver doesn't, you have to assume an older version. Older X servers and applications must work with newer kernel drivers. David -- David Dawes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tungsten Graphics, Inc http://www.tungstengraphics.com Founder/President, Release Engineer Phone: +1 570 764 0288 The XFree86 Project, Inc http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
