Re: Improved DRM support for cant_use_aperture platforms

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Sun, 11 May 2003 20:55:43 +0100


On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:09:00AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> Michel> but there'd have to be fallbacks for older kernels (this is
> Michel> against 2.4.20-ben8):
>
> OK, we have a chicken & egg problem then: I could obviously add Linux
> kernel version checks where needed, but to do that, the patch first
> needs to go into the kernel. Dave, would you mind applying the patch
> to your tree? Then once Linus picked it up, I can send a new patch to
> dri-devel. Or does someone have a better suggestion?

With Linus doing the DRI sync-ups himself, maybe just pushing it his
way directly would work.. I'll roll it into the next 2.5-dj for some extra
testing, but I'm not going to be the one who pushes that linuswards
unless I get asked by the DRI folks.

Dave

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