intel driver will only compile with gcc

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Jun 12 18:43:30 PDT 2007


On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:06:32PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > I'm afraid I don't see the problem here. Why is the 6.x series suddenly
> > useless to you? It's still available. It still runs just as well on the old
> > hardware as it always did. Does your old hardware really need the EXA and
> > Composite fixes?
> No, what it needs more than anything is drivers that support video cards
> you can actually buy today. Drivers that support modern nVidia, ATI and
> Intel chips, especially the last, because laptops are becoming more and
> more important.

How many platforms have a sufficient ACPI implementation to stand any 
real chance of being useful on a modern laptop, but don't have a C 
compiler that supports named initializers?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org



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