Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269895AbUIDLPy (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:15:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269882AbUIDLNF (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:13:05 -0400 Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie ([136.201.105.4]:25794 "EHLO holly.csn.ul.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269886AbUIDLMg (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:12:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:12:31 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie X-X-Sender: airlied@skynet To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Keith Whitwell , Jon Smirl , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design In-Reply-To: <20040904120352.B14037@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20040904004424.93643.qmail@web14921.mail.yahoo.com> <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> <41398EBD.2040900@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904104834.B13362@infradead.org> <413997A7.9060406@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904112535.A13750@infradead.org> <4139995E.5030505@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904120352.B14037@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1406 Lines: 31 > > OK, I've found www.kernel.org, and clicked on the 'latest stable kernel' link. > > I got a file called "patch-2.6.8.1.bz2". I tried to install this but > > nothing happened. My i915 still doesn't work. What do I do now? > > You could start getting a clue. > Which is the problem, Keith was acting as a user with no clue, and why should a user who can't get his graphics card working worry about kernel upgrades, along with X upgrades, the DRI has a workable snapshot process now that allows users to use their DRI supported graphics card now, not in 6 months time when the X release happens, and the distro picks up the X release, they run a script it builds a module against their kernel, breaking this for a small decrease in memory usage in an uncommon use case and as far as I can see no better maintainability (or worse) is a bit of an ask... we aren't coming up with these problems just to annoy kernel developers they are real world issues.. that the DRI team deal with not the kernel team.... Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/