Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267829AbUIDMz5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:55:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267830AbUIDMz5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:55:57 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:12908 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267829AbUIDMz4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:55:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:58:38 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Dave Airlie Cc: Nick Piggin , Keith Whitwell , Christoph Hellwig , Jon Smirl , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design Message-ID: <20040904125838.GA8318@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Airlie , Nick Piggin , Keith Whitwell , Christoph Hellwig , Jon Smirl , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> <41399CA2.3080607@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 878 Lines: 20 On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:54:06AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > Just out of interest, what would the scenario be if you do if you could > > get a compatible driver? > > you just grab a DRI snapshot which contains new userspace and DRM, and > install it... it builds the DRM against your current kernel, now if your > current kernel has a DRM module built-in which is a different version, you > are screwed, snapshot process breaks.. So they are just building an external driver for the kernel. No binary compatibility - and maybe a thin compat layer. Not a big deal to maintain - only a small diff to latest kernel tree. Sam - 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/