On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:14:05PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > After seeing that i830_drm.h was just added as a userspace header > > I wondered whether there's really a non-empty intersection of > > kernel >= 2.6.27 users and users of such an ancient X. > > > > I doubt it, and therefore suggest this patch to remove the driver. > > NAK I'm generally against removing old userspace APIs just because you > don't know what people are doing out in the real world, > > This should go via feature deprecation, it should also include a list of > distros that actually shipped an X server/Mesa combo that used the i830 as > opposed to the i915 so we can make a better judgement call.
Is there any remote chance at all that such distros will work with kernels >= 2.6.27 ? I'm asking since I remember that the current stable Debian contains kernel 2.6.18, the previous stable Debian contained kernel 2.6.8 (which was released nearly at the same time as X11R6.8.0), and the upgrade procedure was slightly tricky since there does not exist any udev version supporting both kernel 2.6.8 and kernel 2.6.18. [1] If you know about things people do in the real world I missed please say so. > Dave. cu Adrian [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-upgrading_kernel -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
