On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 16:59, Hod McWuff wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 08:26, Michel DÃnzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 03:21, Hod McWuff wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 19:03, Michel DÃnzer wrote:
> > > 
> > > By the way, is there an index of CVS tags by date? Or should I just try 
> > > to pull something by a date near when the first Gatos commits were made?
> > 
> > I usually look up this kind of stuff in something like the cvs log
> > output.
> 
> I'm a bit rusty on CVS. I went lazy and started poring through the CVS
> web interface. Do you refer to the ChangeLog you get automatically sent
> to when doing a cvs commit?

No, I mean cvs log <file> . It shows the tag<->revision and
revision<->time (and by extension tag<->time) correspondence.


> I'm just trying to trick the Gatos userspace into accepting the DRI DRM. 
> It would probably be more correct to patch the Gatos userspace to only 
> require 1.10.0 or better, [...]

Exactly. With older DRMs, the 2D driver can't enable direct rendering
and video capturing at the same time.

> The DRI radeon 1.10.0 radeon DRM *DOES* work with the Gatos 2D driver.

Great.

> It's 3D I'm wrestling with, and even that feels like it's pretty damn
> close.

Forget about the GATOS 3D drivers. The current DRM can deal with any others.


> > > As an aside though, perhaps a unified source is a good idea.
> > 
> > That's what the DRM in DRI CVS is, unless I misunderstand you.
> 
> I mean the DRI-issued DRM should be published verbatim to both the 2.6
> and 2.4 kernels. That may or may not be political fire, 

Indeed, that's up to the kernel hackers, and my experience suggests they
wouldn't like the idea. Your call though. :)

> but it would ensure that absolutely all bug reports regarding the DRM 
> come back to the same place that new development happens. As things 
> stand, many bugfixes (usually arch-related) seem to only be represented 
> in the various kernel maintainers' copies.

I'm not sure there's much that can be done about people who can't read
the MAINTAINERS file...


-- 
Earthling Michel DÃnzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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