Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:48:09 +0100 | From | Egbert Eich <> | Subject | Re: status of DRM_MGA on x86_64 |
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Dave Airlie writes: > > Ian, can you look at this I think you are the best person (maybe > Keithw) to tell whether this stuff breaks compat in any direction,. > Egbert you may not want to lobby for it but all I personally want to > know is what it might potentially break in terms of backwards > compatiblity.... from SuSEs point of view as long as a distro is > consistent then you are okay, for us the whole keeping DRIs built > against older kernels working with newer kernels is the only real > issue...
Right. I know. I've looked into this. I thought I had fixed the last remaining backward compatibility between kernel and DRI (libraries and Xserver) by adding compatibility ioctls. I still plan to revisit this issue and see if I can modify the code such that I don't need those compatibility ioctls.
> > Hopefully Ian can look at the patch and decide on it.... >
OK. An earlier version is in the freedesktop CVS (#943). If you want I make a port to the DRI head. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to get at it for the next 2 - 3 weeks.
Egbert.
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