Re: [git pull] DRM changes for 2.6.17

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 15:29:50 EST




On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> This contains the changes for the DRM I'd like in 2.6.17, mainly a new memory
> mapper and a safer r300 method for enabling pci ids... they now require a new
> Xorg driver..

Can you describe what that means more?

Does it mean that people with old X versions will lose hw acceleration?
For which chips?

Linus
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