> I can't believe I am hearing this. The major benifit of free software is > that if there is a new and better design you can try it out and then > everyone can upgrade. It's not as if we are charging them money they way > Microsoft does. > > Are you saying that progress stops with the inclusion of the driver into > the kernel tree ? Could it be that you misunderstood Linus and he meant: > during stable series ?
No, there was no misunderstanding. You can't update the DRM code in the kernel in such a way that it breaks older versions of the 2D and 3D drivers. Simple as that. > As for understanding the hardware - you can't possibly understand which > has not been released yet. Heck, with the state of things that is now, > we often don't know details about the hardware that was just released. That's my point. We didn't know how to program the offsets, hence the current situation. -- Gareth _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
