Am Fr, den 31.12.2004 schrieb Dave Airlie um 7:28:
> Okay some people have commented on the DRM CVS of late, and are unsure of
> what is happening with it,
> 
> I'm very willing to drop the shared and linux directories into an archived
> area but that will stop all support for Linux 2.4,
> 
> but at the moment I'm getting the impression more people are using the
> non-core DRM than the core one which isn't helping testing for it at all,
> the core stuff has now been accepted into the kernel, so this is the
> future whether it is liked or loathed....
> 
> Can I ask that everyone running a 2.6 kernel use the core DRM for future
> testing? I'd like to maybe try merge the shareds at least but that isn't
> easy as all the DRM() macros in the old shared are a messy point...
> 
> IMHO all future development should be concentrated on the core, and
> declare people running 2.6 can't have any new features, we just say this
> DRM is final 2.4 DRM and it ends here..., branch it off, and remove the
> files from the HEAD...

I was going to change mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/Makefile.template to use
the share-core directory for DRM includes. This will be needed for the
new Savage DRM as it lives in linux-core/shared-core only. With your
assessment of the status of the 2.4 DRM it looks like it will never be
backported to Linux 2.4.

> 
> Dave.

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