From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265643AbUBPQk0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:40:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265681AbUBPQk0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:40:26 -0500 Received: from delerium.kernelslacker.org ([81.187.208.145]:45022 "EHLO delerium.codemonkey.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265643AbUBPQkZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:40:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:38:00 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: john moser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Radeon IGP drivers Message-ID: <20040216163800.GB27470@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , john moser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040216162256.0272F395B@sitemail.everyone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040216162256.0272F395B@sitemail.everyone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:22:56AM -0800, john moser wrote: > Some patches are referenced at the following link for the xfree86 CVS: > http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:GSp4PKNHFpAJ:www.cliff.biffle.org/cpq2100.php+linux+presario+2100+3D&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 > > These patches do two things. One allows X to use IGP drivers with DRI. The > other generates a .ko for Linux 2.6 that works with the Radeon IGP cards. > > It is the responsibility of the XFree86 project to merge in the DRI patch; > however, the new IGP-compatible Radeon driver > ( http://www.cliff.biffle.org/patches/radeon_igp-2.6.patch ) > is a kernel driver. Has this been moved into the Linux source tree yet? If > not, could someone move it into the tree? Better to have it now than to wait > for X 4.4 to come out and (possibly) have the DRI patch merged in before patch looks totally bogus in relation to whats in kernel tree right now. It's also got absolutely nothing to do with radeon igp, just changes to the different agp types (which the in-kernel drivers got changed to a long time ago). Dave