Release planned for KMS/kernel 2.6.33?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 07:14:01 PST 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> I'm maintaining the ati ArchLinux packages. He had stuck with non-kms
> DRI1 so far because KMS drm module was in staging and was not
> officially supported and not recommended.
>
> Now that kernel 2.6.33 has been released we want to know if KMS/DRI2 is
> now the recommended way to go for distributions and if we should go with
> a git shot or if a driver release will happen very soon.

Now that 2.6.33 is out we'll be rolling a KMS-capable radeon release.
I just haven't had time to get to it yet.  Hopefully next week.

Alex


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