Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:19:55PM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: > >module and the card dependant one.. I can see people building their own > >card drivers from the DRM CVS and trying to load them vs a kernel with a > >built-in DRM core.. my current thinking on this is we use the Kconfig to > >t

Re: Savage DRI DDX to xorg merge

2004-08-06 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:51:08 +0100, Sérgio Monteiro Basto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 17:08, Alex Deucher wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 03:13:35 +0100, Sérgio Monteiro Basto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 05:45, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > I

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Ian Romanick
Jon Smirl wrote: The only case I see a problem is when drm-core is compiled into the kernel. Why don't we just change the Makefile to default to copying the CVS code into the kernel source tree and tell the user to rebuild his kernel? I don't think that will fly with Joe-user that just wants to up

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Ian Romanick
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:19:55PM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: > >module and the card dependant one.. I can see people building their own > >card drivers from the DRM CVS and trying to load them vs a kernel with a > >built-in DRM core.. my current thinking on this is we use th

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Keith Whitwell
Ian Romanick wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: The only case I see a problem is when drm-core is compiled into the kernel. Why don't we just change the Makefile to default to copying the CVS code into the kernel source tree and tell the user to rebuild his kernel? I don't think that will fly with Joe-user

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Jon Smirl
--- Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Romanick wrote: > > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > >> The only case I see a problem is when drm-core is compiled into > >> the kernel. Why don't we just change the Makefile to default to > >> copying the CVS code into the kernel source tree and tell the

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Keith Whitwell
Jon Smirl wrote: --- Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Romanick wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: The only case I see a problem is when drm-core is compiled into the kernel. Why don't we just change the Makefile to default to copying the CVS code into the kernel source tree and tell the user to

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Keith Whitwell
The key here is that distributions release new kernels at a rapid pace. This is not X where we get a new release every five years. The standard mechanism for upgrading device drivers in Linux is to add them to the kernel and wait for a release. So, people have to reboot to install a new graphics

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Jon Smirl
--- Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I don't buy it. Graphics drivers are a special case and > people upgrade them with a passion... No new interfaces, thankyou. I get a new kernel from Redhat about every two weeks. Redhat is at 2.6.7 and Linus is at 2.6.8. Nobody releases g

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Jon Smirl
--- Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The key here is that distributions release new kernels at a rapid > pace. > > This is not X where we get a new release every five years. The > standard > > mechanism for upgrading device drivers in Linux is to add them to > the > > kernel and w

[Bug 1003] New: running two instances of glsnake locks X

2004-08-06 Thread bugzilla-daemon
Please do not reply to this email: if you want to comment on the bug, go to the URL shown below and enter yourcomments there. https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1003 Summary: running two instances of glsnake locks X Product: Mesa

[Bug 1003] running two instances of glsnake locks X

2004-08-06 Thread bugzilla-daemon
Please do not reply to this email: if you want to comment on the bug, go to the URL shown below and enter yourcomments there. https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1003 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-08-06 13:25 --- Actually, o

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:38:10AM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: > >For agpgart it hasn't really been an issue as all the development there > >in the last year or two has been done in tree. Yes, there has been some > >work on things like i915 out-of-tree, but that stuff has been merged up > >pret

New kernel API for ROMs

2004-08-06 Thread Jon Smirl
This patch provides a new kernel API for access ROMs from device drivers. If you're working on a driver that uses the ROM (most video drivers) please give this patch a try and send some feedback/bugs. pci_map_rom() - map the rom and provide virtual address, transparently return shadow/copy if need

[Bug 1003] running two instances of glsnake locks X

2004-08-06 Thread bugzilla-daemon
Please do not reply to this email: if you want to comment on the bug, go to the URL shown below and enter yourcomments there. https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1003 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-08-06 15:15 --- This is not

Re: DRM function pointer work..

2004-08-06 Thread Dave Airlie
> > fbdev is in exactly this model and it isn't causing anyone problems. > The simple rule is that if you want to upgrade fbdev past the current > version you have to do it in entirety. You do that for fbdev but > pulling bk://fbdev.bkbits.net/. But Joe user doesn't do that, that is > something on