Messages in this thread | | | From | Andres Freund <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] agp patches for 2.6.28-rc1. | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:18:37 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Monday 20 October 2008 03:04:16 Dave Airlie wrote: > > Hm. But still, there is at least one distribution (ubuntu intrepid) which > > will propably will ship 2.4.1 in its stable version soon (it seems > > unlikely that they will update to an unstable version just before an > > release). Which means, that this driver will get quite some spread... > Intel will give the fixes to Ubuntu to roll into 2.4.x hopefully. I opened a bugreport on their bugtracker to make them aware of the issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/286182
> > Is it accepted that the kernel abi breaks that radically/fast? > The problem is this isn't a kernel ABI at all. This is two pieces of code > which are doing the exact same thing to a piece of hardware, one from the > kernel and one from userspace. When they disagree things break, however > sometimes when they agree things are broken. Hm, I understand what you are saying, but I don't see a fundamental difference to an ABI here. But it doesn't matter anyway...
Andres
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