David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:17:25PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
> >[Note: I'm not subscribed to xfree86, please cc me on replies]
> >
> >I've downloaded:
> >
> >  
> > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/snapshots/4.4.99.902/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc22/Xdrm.tgz
> >  
> >
> >md5sum ba53177c27aa85608bc210d9cbb82acd  Xdrm.tgz
> >
> >After extraction, src/drm/linux/kernel/Makefile references some i830*
> >files which are not present in the archive.
> 
> The DRM included in 4.4.99.902 is known to not be buildable.  At
> best it was an incomplete and untested snapshot of some development
> version of the drm, which is not at all acceptable for our upcoming
> release.
> 
> Since these issues were not resolved, we have rolled back to a
> version based on what we shipped with 4.4.0, and that is what will
> be included in the next release candidate (4.4.99.903) as well as
> the final 4.5.0 release.  This DRM version builds and runs on a wide
> range of Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, as well as recent FreeBSD
> releases.  Feedback regarding NetBSD would be most welcome.

Mmmh, I've had reports of the 4.4.0 drm kernel modules not compiling
on recent 2.6.x kernels.

So shipping 4.4.0's drm as-is in 4.5.0 is not an option.

Phil.
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