Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:04:16 +0100 (IST)
From: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] agp patches for 2.6.28-rc1.
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> Hm. But still, there is at least one distribution (ubuntu intrepid) which will 
> propably will ship 2.4.1 in its stable version soon (it seems unlikely that 
> they will update to an unstable version just before an release).
> Which means, that this driver will get quite some spread...

Intel will give the fixes to Ubuntu to roll into 2.4.x hopefully.

> Is it accepted that the kernel abi breaks that radically/fast?
> 

The problem is this isn't a kernel ABI at all. This is two pieces of code 
which are doing the exact same thing to a piece of hardware, one from the 
kernel and one from userspace. When they disagree things break, however 
sometimes when they agree things are broken. . The solution is proper 
kernel graphics drivers, however that future is further away.

Dave.

> Andres
> 
> 
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