Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre6 drm-4.0

[Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>]

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On 07 Dec 2001 18:27:11 -0500,
> Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
> >On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 18:20, Keith Owens wrote:
> >
> >> How long do people plan to keep drm 4.0 code in their versions of the
> >> kernel?
> >
> >For 2.5, there probably is no intention of keeping that around.  But can
> >we honestly ditch it in the middle of a stable kernel?  Personally I
> >don't use it, but its not polite ...
> 
> Linus ditched drm 4.0 months ago.  It only survives in arch add on
> patches like ia64 and in -ac trees.

Well, I am on Debian stable, and the only Xfree4 contributed packages
are for 4.0.

I will move on to 4.1 when Debian moves on, but as you know they are
slower than a tired snail when it comes to new releases.

I wonder how many other people use these 4.0 packages off:

deb ftp://debian.cri74.org/debian-cri potato/contrib_luis_sismeiro main
non-free

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