Re: [bk pull] DRM tree - stop i830/i915 in kernel

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:55:42PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> >
> > please don't do this.
> > This makes it not possible for distributions to ship kernels that need
> > to work on both old and new X versions....
> >
> 
> no, it'll stop distributions from shipping kernels with both drivers
> built-in, modular kernels will work fine, X picks the driver to load, if
> people are building in the drivers then I believe they know what they are
> at...
> 
> Having both drivers built-in is obviously broken and actually doesn't work
> at all (someone reported it in an Xorg bug...)

ok fair enough; ignore my objection

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