Re: [git pull] DRM changes for 2.6.17

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> No it means people with old X versions won't try to enable hw accel on cards
> that their X.org doesn't suppport...
> 
> The X.org drivers with respect to r300 drivers are highly experimental and
> enabled DRI on r300 by default before they should, when I added the r300 PCI
> IDs as I tried last time, lots of people crashed and you backed out the
> changes... so now the kernel isn't going to to trigger those problems, as all
> of the new r300 class cards require using a new Xorg driver to enable DRI..
> 
> Its the only way I can think off to get the r300 PCI ids into the kernel and
> not break current systems... there is nothing I can do in the DRM to fix the
> Xorg DDX stupidity..

Ok, thanks. Sounds good. Pulled,

		Linus
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