Preferred (gentoo) Intel Stack?

Beso givemesugarr at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 00:24:14 PST 2008


2008/12/24 Rémi Cardona <remi at gentoo.org>:
> Le 23/12/2008 23:56, Nikos Chantziaras a écrit :
>> Why not?  I thought the x11-drm from git (that's x11-drm-99999999 in the
>> x11 overlay) was always the best way to test the latest code...
>
> Not anymore. Now the drm drivers are developed directly within the linux
> kernel.
>
> Here's what the last commit to the driver directory says :
>
> commit 28771e06dfe45027be6618f87335c19e8e88e3f6
> Author: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> Date:   Wed Dec 17 13:47:59 2008 -0800
>
>     intel: Remove linux build of i915 DRM, as it's unmaintained and a
> user trap.
>
>     The code's in the linux kernel.
>
> I hope that's enough to convince you :)
>
this is true only for intel or does apply also for other drivers?

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dott. ing. beso


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