Feigning erudition, Kendall Bennett wrote:
% Hi Guys,
%
% I know I have asked this before, but I can't seem to find my emails and
% the mailing list archive does not seem to be responding.
%
% What sort of back/forward compatibility is there with the XFree86 driver
% modules? From memory last time I tested this, if I compile a 4.2.0 module
% it will work with any version of 4.2.x, but it will fail to load on 4.3.x
% or 4.1.x. So right now we are thinking of building modules for 4.0.x,
% 4.1.x, 4.2.x and 4.3.x and shipping all four modules with our installer
% (which will auto choose which one to install).
Hmm. I installed 4.3.0 on a crash test dummy at work today. I had the
mga_hal.o module from Matrox for 4.2.mumble. Copied it into place,
started X, and it seemed to load without incident - no untoward messages
in the log files and neither the monitor nor the video card went up in
smoke. ;-)
More generally, where might I might information on determining
binary compatibility, or lack thereof, between module version and XFree
releases?
Kurt
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