Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966382AbXEVQKc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 12:10:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757228AbXEVQKY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 12:10:24 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:49002 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757092AbXEVQKX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 12:10:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:14:36 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Jon Smirl" Cc: "Jesse Barnes" , "Jeff Garzik" , "Jesse Barnes" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem Message-ID: <20070522171436.5b9f4440@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910705220902y151d1922s7e478de041062aa4@mail.gmail.com> References: <200705171423.46748.jesse.barnes@intel.com> <20070522155439.20bf509f@the-village.bc.nu> <9e4733910705220816j778e00ecle86e209ef0111b8e@mail.gmail.com> <200705220846.53664.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <9e4733910705220902y151d1922s7e478de041062aa4@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 749 Lines: 17 > I've talked to an ATI engineer about VBIOS initialization. The chips > may have different steppings. ATI won't even tell us how to do 2D mode setting or clear the code under NDA that does so. So we don't support AMD (aka ATI) video hardware anyway. Until they grow up its an irrelevant case. The problem is how to support the hardware of people who will work sanely with the free software community and how to do it well. If it makes life worse for those who don't then that is their problem. Alan - 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/