Re: Inter-module compatibility

2005-08-10 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Andy Ritger wrote: Marc, I don't have any good ideas to suggest to solve this versioning problem, but FWIW the NVIDIA X driver does not use the vbe module. True. And your primary nemesis, ATI, wouldn't be affected by this particular change either. I'm thinking in more

Re: Inter-module compatibility

2005-08-10 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:49:49AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: >On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, David Dawes wrote: >>On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:45:15AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: >>>Our loader scheme has been, and is, reasonably good at dealing with >>>incompatibilities between modules and the

Re: Inter-module compatibility

2005-08-10 Thread Andy Ritger
Marc, I don't have any good ideas to suggest to solve this versioning problem, but FWIW the NVIDIA X driver does not use the vbe module. Thanks, - Andy On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, David Dawes wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:45:15AM -0600, Marc A

Re: Inter-module compatibility

2005-08-10 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:45:15AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: Our loader scheme has been, and is, reasonably good at dealing with incompatibilities between modules and the core binary. But it is not so good with ensuring modules are compatible wit