Re: via agp patches

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Sat May 31 2008 - 18:51:20 EST


On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recently VIA has been distributing some pre-build kernel modules for
> their latest video cards without the source for it. So I asked, and got
> the patches. I've forward ported them to the current 2.6.26-rc4 tree,
> and they also apply cleanly to 2.6.25 as well. They are here in the
> three emails after this one.
>
> I'm still working on getting some more information on exactly what these
> patches each do for a good changelog, but until then, if anyone has the
> hardware and wants to play with the code, here it is.
>
> If anyone has any questions, please let me know.
>

Like I can pull the cleanups and style one no problems, but really any
functional changes
need to be explained with some detail, and the drm changes need to be
submitted to dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
and Thomas Hellstrom would need to at least understand them before we
could let them into the kernel.

also adding support to the kernel without some idea of what userspace
can use it isn't going to happen.

VIA need to deal with the openchrome project to get those sort of
changes into an upstream X.org related driver.

Dave.
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