On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:11:33PM +0100, Alberto Milone wrote: > On 31/01/11 03:20, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:40:58AM +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers > > wrote: > >> It has the disadvantage that we need to maintain a list of supported > >> ABIs, and we need to produce the dependency field outside of the xsfbs > >> helper system, so they could get out of sync. I don't think these are > >> big disadvantages, as the supported ABI list changes approximately once > >> per cycle, and the xsfbs system changes even less often (and we'd need > >> to deliberately update when it does anyway). > > > > (The kernel also tends to break the proprietary drivers. Would be nice > > to have a solution for that as well.) > > > > I think it's an idea worth trying, but might be wisest to leave 'til > > after alpha-2 as I think it'll need a bit more testing than we have time > > to coordinate at the moment. > > Are you referring to kernel ABI changes (which, thanks to DKMS, should > no longer be a problem) or to compatibility with new kernel releases?
The latter. The ABI breakages seem to be a thing of the past. :-) Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
