Jens Owen wrote:
> 
> Keith Whitwell wrote:
> >
> > Jens Owen wrote:
> > >
> > > Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Jens, For TCL support, the driver needs drm module version 1.3.
> > >
> > > So, we really want to get version 1.3 onto users machines.  Am I correct
> > > in saying that older versions still work, but would cause the driver to
> > > fall back to rasterization only.
> >
> > Fallback to indirect rendering - ie the driver won't load with older kernel
> > module.  Currently old drivers will work with new kernel modules, but not vice
> > versa.
> 
> Should we update readeonCreateScreen to reflect this?  It's still
> checking for version 1.2 or newer.

This reflects the fact that the DDX driver doesn't use any new functionality
in the kernel.  In fact, it hasn't been modified for tcl at all...  In other
words, the tcl driver doesn't really need an upgrade to the DDX driver...

Keith

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