No they are different interfaces etc.. the drivers are not the same, the i915 drm works with the i915 DDX/3D, it doesn't work with the i830 DDX/3D,
the i915 doesn't cover the i810 anyways... Dave. On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jon Smirl wrote: > What do you mean by backwards compatibility? If it's scripts that load > i810.ko we could just copy i915.ko to i810.ko. > > Will the i915 binary also drive the i810 and i830 hardware? > > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:20:23 +0100 (IST), Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > no.. for backways compat we keep it all.. > > > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > Does the i915 DRM driver cover the i810/830 too? If so, can we whack > > > the i810/830 drivers? That will lower the amount of code I have to > > > keep fixing up for my changes. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > David Airlie, Software Engineer > > http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie > > pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person > > > > > > > > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
