Re: X.org plans for the squeeze cycle
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:36:58 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:37:18AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > One more thing. Intel plans to deprecate userspace mode setting with
> > their Q4 2009 release (meaning December this year, so probably something
> > we'll want for squeeze, depending on the freeze date you pick).
>
> Oh, no. Not again. It does not yet properly work without the new memory
> manager (#538442). And KMS is completely unusable currently on this
> kernels.
>
> > This might also mean that we'll want to
> > turn kms on by default in the debian kernel,
>
> Is KMS backward compatible with older versions of the intel driver?
>
No :/
I guess we could also decide to freeze on the intel Q3 bits, but then
we're likely to be on our own for new hardware support and stuff like
that.
Cheers,
Julien
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