> > Looks like that Dave Airlie has pushed another set of patches > made by Paul Mackerras into the DRM code. > My patches support a wider range of chipsets (Matrox, R128 and Radeon) > and provide a framework which makes it easy to add ioctl32 support > to more chipsets. > Furthermore they have support for both the old style ioctl32 support > and the one that uses compat_alloc_user_space() so they should work > on a wider range of kernels.
And this is probably all fine for DRM CVS or Xorg, but for the kernel it just isn't acceptable, I'd be flamed down if I pushed this patch kernel side, its just a fact of life... I would have to remove all the macros and old style ioctl32 stuff to get this into the kernel, without any way of testing it ... I'm not willing to do that, I'm going to port over the mga and r128 work you've done to Paul's scheme and push them kernel side ... The changes to types need to clarify what exactly breaks where, I'm not as worried about the interactions between X and Mesa as I am about old Xs and new kernels... if we change the sarea size in X will it run on an old kernel, if I upgrade to a new kernel without changing X will it still work? I'm only taking care of the DRM, really the userspace stuff is going to have to be up to someone with more authority than me... (I've asked for people to review your patch when you first published it, no-one did..) Breakage in X-> DRI isn't so bad as a release will be consistent.. it'll just break ATI binary drivers... Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
