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From: Keith Whitwell <keith@tungstengraphics.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	"DRI developer's list" <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DRM function pointer work..
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:24:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4113BEC5.6030909@tungstengraphics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806171641.14189.qmail@web14928.mail.yahoo.com>


> The key here is that distributions release new kernels at a rapid pace.
> This is not X where we get a new release every five years. The standard
> mechanism for upgrading device drivers in Linux is to add them to the
> kernel and wait for a release.  

So, people have to reboot to install a new graphics driver?   How very 
windows...

At least with windows you don't have to re-install the whole OS first...

Keith


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040806024907.13024.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-08-06 16:32 ` Ian Romanick
2004-08-06 16:54   ` Keith Whitwell
2004-08-06 17:16     ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-06 17:20       ` Keith Whitwell
2004-08-06 17:46         ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-07 22:42           ` Dave Jones
2004-08-06 17:24       ` Keith Whitwell [this message]
2004-08-06 17:48         ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-07  0:11       ` Dave Airlie
2004-08-07 14:47         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-07 13:31       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-07 14:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-07 14:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408031427540.31513@skynet>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408041201490.30393@skynet>
     [not found]   ` <41128B90.5070702@us.ibm.com>
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408052338010.9947@skynet>
     [not found]       ` <4112C09B.1070603@us.ibm.com>
2004-08-05 23:54         ` Dave Airlie
2004-08-07 14:43           ` Christoph Hellwig

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