Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: any DRM update scheduled for 2.4.23-pre?
From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>, faith@valinux.com,
       dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Mitch@0Bits.COM
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On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:16, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:51, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone planning to update the apparently obsolete(*)
> > DRM drivers currently in 2.4.22-pre/rc for 2.4.23?
> 
> I have a pending DRM 4.3 update for .23-pre1. Marcelo did not accept it for 
> .22 ( I sent it first while -pre9 time or so. )
> 
> It's a complete DRM-4.3 tree. 

Literally from XFree86 4.3, or from DRI CVS? The latter would be better,
as the former is no longer actively maintained.

> He has to decide between an update of existing 4.2 code or an 
> addition of a new subdirectory drm-4.3 + proper config.in entry.

There's no need for a separate directory, the DRM has been backwards
compatible since 4.2 at least, and countless bugs have been fixed since
then.

It would also be great if you could isolate DRM fixes in the kernel and
post patches here - some kernel developers keep complaining how broken
the DRM code is, but never submit patches...


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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