Graphics Driver Frameworks and Security

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:28:56AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> (BTW, someone should point out to Theo all the bugs & e-mail we're getting 
> now
>  about the ATI closed drivers not working on Xorg 7.1 because we chose to
>  break the vendor binary drivers in this release.  Guess we've failed our
>  lapdog role.)

The real problem is that X.org doesn't break the ABI often enough.  If
you make sure the ABI breaks in every release they'll stop complaining
real soon.