David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:04:00 +0000 > Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>If you are running kernel > 2.6.6, DRM is not available. With kernel >>2.4.28, you have to compile it into the kernel explicitly: e.g., >>CONFIG_DRM_NEW=y >>CONFIG_DRM_FFB=y > > > X.org's creator3D driver has DRM support removed, in order to > support the render extension and use the XAA layer. > > I should know, I wrote those changes :-)
Yes, but with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 (the current supported version) on Gentoo Sparc, those changes are still optional because (1) they are not officially part of the xorg release yet (at version 6.8.2), and (2) to allow a transition period in case anyone needs it. They are definitely available at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79467, and we highly recommend the XAA patch (changes cure some annoying problems with sunffb+libSDL, among other things), but it is not yet default for us. So it is possible to have current xorg-x11 + DRM in sunffb. Thus my comment. Rather than patching xorg-x11 and then pulling the patch out once the XAA changes were integrated into the xorg-x11 release branch, it seemed more prudent to make them optional but recommended for this Gentoo release cycle. > -- > [email protected] mailing list Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc)
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