On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:27:27AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 07:54:54AM +0000, Bridgman, John wrote: > > Yep, good point. We have tended to stay a bit behind bleeding edge because our primary tasks so far have been: > > > > > > 1. Support enterprise distros (with old kernels) via the hybrid driver > > (AMDGPU-PRO), where the closer to upstream we get the more of a gap we > > have to paper over with KCL code > > Hm, I thought resonable enterprise distros roll their drm core forward to > the very latest upstream fairly often, so it shouldn't be too bad? Fixing > this completely requires that you upstream your pre-production hw support > early enough that by the time it ships its the backport is already in a > realeased enterprise distro upgrade. But then adding bugfixes on top > should be doable. Or just put an entire statically linked copy of the corresponding drm core into your dkms. A bit horrible, but iirc it's been done before. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
