On Fre, 2002-02-01 at 20:37, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > Are you saying that progress stops with the inclusion of the driver into > the kernel tree ?
Backward compatibility doesn't mean there's no progress. > > > So, it is possible to make this change work, but I do not see this worth > > > it in the end. > > > > What you're suggesting boils down to shipping the DRI drivers (incl. the > > DRM portions) as a separete package. If you can't maintain backwards > > compatibility, this is the way it will be. End of story. > > What about including both old and new drivers in the kernel simultaneously ? > And make them register the PCI ids instead of pretend they don't access > the device ? This way will have radeon_X.o for DRM modules and Xserver > will simply attempt to load the correct version (and remove wrong one if > it is loaded). IIRC (you can read it up in the dri-devel and lkml archives) Linus said 'two versions of the same driver, no more'. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
