On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 04:39:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The case I'm worried about is where the graphics driver never gets
> > into a mergable state and we end up with a pile of mainline code that
> > can't sanely run on the hardware. As long as the plan is to get it to
> > avoid duplicating the entire Intel modesetting code and including its
> > own TTM then that seems fair enough, but Intel's track record on this
> > side of things hasn't been great.
> 
> I don't track the public DRM lists but the last I saw on that on the
> archives was Keith Packard blocking patches to enable such a merge.
> You'd have to ask him about it. On the acceleration side mrst/psb
> graphics are not i9xx style.

I'm really not terribly comfortable merging enabling code for an 
architecture if there's no clear plan for merging critical parts of that 
architecture.

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Matthew Garrett | [email protected]
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