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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:04:16 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie> To: Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de> cc: Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] agp patches for 2.6.28-rc1. > Hm. But still, there is at least one distribution (ubuntu intrepid) which will > propably will ship 2.4.1 in its stable version soon (it seems unlikely that > they will update to an unstable version just before an release). > Which means, that this driver will get quite some spread... Intel will give the fixes to Ubuntu to roll into 2.4.x hopefully. > Is it accepted that the kernel abi breaks that radically/fast? > The problem is this isn't a kernel ABI at all. This is two pieces of code which are doing the exact same thing to a piece of hardware, one from the kernel and one from userspace. When they disagree things break, however sometimes when they agree things are broken. . The solution is proper kernel graphics drivers, however that future is further away. Dave. > Andres > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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