On Fre, 2002-09-27 at 18:51, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>It's a big hack to be doing this.

BTW it also seems to work for him without writing to GEN_INT_CNTL all
the time, i.e. only acknowledging the bits in GEN_INT_STATUS. Would that
make it slightly less hackish? :)

> >> I'd really like to know why this happens, 
> >>
> > 
> > So would I. I suspect it's a workaround for some problem, it worked fine
> > here without. (as I said on IRC yesterday: but then I have sane hardware
> > :)
> > 
> > 
> >>but in the mean time I'm ok to see it go in.
> >>
> > 
> > Okay, I'll commit it later tonight.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>Maybe I should be more pedantic about things...
> >>
> > 
> > Well, I'd rather you wouldn't be speaking in riddles. 
> 
> Just about committing code that is a hack-around without really understanding 
> what's going on.  I think it's more or less inevitable, however, with all the 
> different bits of hardware interacting with each other & us in the middle 
> trying to sort it out.

Yeah, this is pretty complex stuff we're dealing with.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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