On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 08:38 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > I've seen in the intel announcement that they only support > UXA now. But, AFAIK, this needs support from a kernel > 2.6.27. Is > this correct?
No, the elimination of EXA and XAA was delayed until UXA worked without any kernel support. Of course, it works better with GEM in the kernel. > BTW, what's the general policy w.r.t. to older kernels? I can imagine > that many people would like to have a more recent X system (for > example, better 3D support for certain graphics cards) without having > to update the rest of the system... The plan (at least as far as the Intel driver goes) is to keep things working with a reasonable mix of code. Requiring matching user and kernel code just isn't feasible for many people. -- [email protected]
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