Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750757AbWC3W1V (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:27:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750771AbWC3W1U (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:27:20 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:7834 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbWC3W1U (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:27:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:27:16 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dave Airlie cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] DRM changes for 2.6.17 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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: 1025 Lines: 25 On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Dave Airlie wrote: > > No it means people with old X versions won't try to enable hw accel on cards > that their X.org doesn't suppport... > > The X.org drivers with respect to r300 drivers are highly experimental and > enabled DRI on r300 by default before they should, when I added the r300 PCI > IDs as I tried last time, lots of people crashed and you backed out the > changes... so now the kernel isn't going to to trigger those problems, as all > of the new r300 class cards require using a new Xorg driver to enable DRI.. > > Its the only way I can think off to get the r300 PCI ids into the kernel and > not break current systems... there is nothing I can do in the DRM to fix the > Xorg DDX stupidity.. Ok, thanks. Sounds good. Pulled, Linus - 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/