Re: Intel 915 ... GEM and the massive changes all over the place

2009-08-28 Thread squirrl
Alan Cox wrote: >> Intel needs to hire Alan Cox. >> > > Chortle. > > I think Mr Troll hasn't being paying attention to planet earth for the > past six months ;) > > Alan > > Acknowledged, I hope you can make things better with your new employment. But remember news only travels if you r

Re: Intel 915 ... GEM and the massive changes all over the place

2009-08-25 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:22:58PM -0400, squirrl wrote: > Linus needs to rip out the GEM subsystem. Xorg needs to remove your > contributions. > > Mesa should seriously consider stepping back their code base. > > Honestly it'll be 2011 before we got anything usable the way it is now. > > Inte

Re: Intel 915 ... GEM and the massive changes all over the place

2009-08-25 Thread Dave Airlie
> Was it necessary? Yes. > > Intel needs to hire Alan Cox. At least he had the balls to throw in the > towel. they did. no, thank you. Dave. > > Thanks a lot . > > > > -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the report

Intel 915 ... GEM and the massive changes all over the place

2009-08-25 Thread squirrl
Was it necessary? ATI and Nvidia both provide a compact archive with a kernel module, xorg driver, and OpenGL libraries. Why couldn't the Intel developers? I can load the latest Nvidia driver on several old kernel versions and Xorg versions. Yet it's a packaged deal with the new Intel offerin