Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 02:25 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Jacob Braun <jwbraun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, kriko <kristjan.ugrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I would try the new cfs how it performs, but it seems that nvidia drivers
> > > doesn't compile successfully under 2.6.23-rc1.
> > > http://files.myopera.com/kriko/files/nvidia-installer.log
> > >
> > > If someone has the solution, please share.
> >
> > There is a patch for the nvidia drivers here:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=125959
> 
> The ATI drivers (current 8.39.4) were broken by
> commit e21ea246bce5bb93dd822de420172ec280aed492
> Author: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Bad call on the "nobody was using these", Martin :(

Nobody in the upstream kernel did, and that is what matters. If you care
about your kernel code get it upstream.

As for breaking binary crap, thats a bonus. Break them hard, break them
often.

Kudos to Martin.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/