On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:23:35AM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Actually regulat users do. And they do by pulling an uptodate kernel or > > using a vendor kernel with backports. This model would work for video drivers > > aswell. > > Sure, explain to me how I should upgrade my RH-9 system to work on my new i915?
Download a new kernel.org kernel or petition the fedora legacy folks to include a drm update. The last release RH-9 kernel has various security and data integrity issues anyway, so you'd be a fool to keep running it. > However, introducing a new binary interface isn't going to magically transform > a fairly neglected codebase into a sparkly new one. All I can really see it > doing is saving a few K of memory in the hetrogenous dual head case. Oh, and > introducing a new failure mode to be debugged at a distance. huh? it you change the ABI your modules simply won't load. that's not exactly what I'd call debugging. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
