Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r2912 - in branches/7.1/xserver/xorg-server/debian: . patches
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:12:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 22:02 -0400, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin
> wrote:
> > Author: dnusinow
> > Date: 2006-08-23 22:02:31 -0400 (Wed, 23 Aug 2006)
> > New Revision: 2912
> >
> > Added:
> > branches/7.1/xserver/xorg-server/debian/patches/17_ignoreabi.diff
> > Modified:
> > branches/7.1/xserver/xorg-server/debian/changelog
> > branches/7.1/xserver/xorg-server/debian/patches/series
> > Log:
> > * Add 17_ignoreabi.diff to allow users to simply set a value in xorg.conf
> > rather than pass -ignoreABI to the server every time it starts
>
> For the record, I don't like this. I think ignoring an incompatible ABI
> should remain an exception and not become a rule engraved in xorg.conf.
This was at the request of the release team. Since Nvidia hadn't released a
driver for 7.1, and it wasn't clear that they would any time soon, the RM's
wanted to allow nvidia-glx users to have an easy way to have acceleration.
This was the compromise to allow us to ship 7.1. Now that they've released
an updated driver this could potentially be removed, but I still think it's
a useful feature (which is why I pushed it upstream too).
- David Nusinow
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