On 10/06/2013 12:43 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > Maintaining the DRM driver takes a lot of recourses as there they are > depending on many API changes done to the core kernel code and > currently we do not have that many recourses to follow them. On the > other side one needs also new userspace drivers to make use of the new > features added to the DRM kernel drivers and it is not easy to update > the X drivers. Therefore we came to the conclusion to remove the drm > drivers for now. > > If someone wants to maintain the DRM drivers I would be very happy with > that and they should not be removed. > > There were also some problems with some DRM drivers, like the Intel > i915 driver caused kernel panic on some systems and was probably only > usable on some very recent kernel versions. > > 1 2.6.25 [ OK ] > 2 2.6.26 [ OK ] > 3 2.6.27 [ OK ] > 4 2.6.28 [ OK ] > 5 2.6.29 [ OK ] > 6 2.6.30 [ OK ] > 7 2.6.31 [ OK ] > 8 2.6.32 [ OK ] > 9 2.6.33 [ OK ] > 10 2.6.34 [ OK ] > 11 2.6.35 [ OK ] > 12 2.6.36 [ OK ] > 13 2.6.37 [ OK ] > 14 2.6.38 [ OK ] > 15 2.6.39 [ OK ] > 16 3.0.98 [ OK ] > 17 3.1.10 [ OK ] > 18 3.10.14 [ OK ] > 19 3.11.3 [ OK ] > 20 3.12-rc3 [ FAIL ] > 21 3.2.51 [ OK ] > 22 3.3.8 [ OK ] > 23 3.4.64 [ OK ] > 24 3.5.7 [ OK ] > 25 3.6.11 [ OK ] > 26 3.7.10 [ OK ] > 27 3.8.13 [ OK ] > 28 3.9.11 [ OK ] > > You can pull it from > https://github.com/hauke/backports/tree/drm-remove > > This is based on the "backports: add next-20130822" patch series. > > Hauke Mehrtens (15): > backports: remove DRM driver > backports: remove platform drivers > backports: remove BACKPORT_BUILD_CROSS_RESERVATION > backports: remove CPTCFG_BACKPORT_BUILD_WW_MUTEX > backports: remove BACKPORT_BUILD_RADIX_HELPERS > backports: remove BACKPORT_BUILD_HDMI > backports: remove more hdmi stuff > backports: remove some stuff related to MTRR > backports: remove scatterlist > backports: remove ktime_get_monotonic_offset() > backports: remove devm_regmap_init_spi() > backports: remove compat_wake_up_locked() > backports: remove i2c_bit_algo() > backports: remove cpufreq_quick_get_max() > backports: remove shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() Any comments on this? If nobody has a problem with this series I would like to relabel it into a patch series so it could be included. Hauke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
