On 08/12/15 06:36 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 8 December 2015 at 22:58, Connor Behan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 08/12/15 05:41 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>> DRI1 hasn't really been a supported option for a while now, Mesa hasn't
>>> supplied any drivers for it in years, and the design really isn't
>>> compatible with KMS-like drivers. Also, Keith has some upcoming work to
>>> thread input handling that will conflict with the SIGIO handling, so if
>>> it's not already broken it's soon to get worse.
>>>
>>> - ajax
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Far from broken. DRI1 has been one of the more stable interfaces for the
>> last few years. And if that changes with Keith's work, it's not exactly
>> going to take months for me to notice something is wrong and run a
>> bisect. Freezing Xorg at 1.18 gives up much more than freezing Mesa at 7.11.
>>
> Funny enough I mentioned you (on IRC) just as the patches were
> reaching the ML. Did you have much progress on the KMS + r128 front ?
> I take it that you're looking at the radeon kernel module (as opposed
> to the r128 one) as mentioned by Alex ?
>
> I'm afraid I don't have any such hardware to chip-in, although I'd
> love to see people giving this (and other dri1 drivers) some much
> needed love.
>
> -Emil
Unfortunately, I kept putting it off because I didn't think a deadline
would be coming up so quickly.

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