Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:19:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:19:13 -0400 Received: from aragorn.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.33]:59523 "EHLO aragorn.ics.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:19:06 -0400 Newsgroups: cz.muni.redir.linux-kernel Path: news From: Zdenek Kabelac Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.6-ac3 Message-ID: <3B543B44.3004B185@i.am> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:19:00 GMT To: Alan Cox X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dual.fi.muni.cz Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: cs, en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-pre6-RTL3.0 i686) Organization: unknown Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > the 3 parts are changed for the fun of it. Granted, issues of backwards > > compatibility haven't been handled well in the past, but with the next > > resync I believe that moving forward this will no longer be a problem. > > You'd have to talk to the guys at VA about this, however. > > Right but we cannot go around breaking support for older setups. A user > updating their 2.4.x stable kernel and finding X11 no longer works simply isnt > an acceptable situation for serious users. Well only acceleration would not work as far as I know. And if the user is tracking kernel development he probably also have Xfree4.1 on his box. I really think drm should be upgraded sooner than in 2.5 kernel. kabi BTW - will we ever see Vertical Blank Interrupt driver ? - 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/