On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:23:57PM +0100, James Simmons wrote: > > Hello!! > > This last year the Openchrome support for the VIA chipsets has > come along way from being in a state of decay. The plan is to release > a Xorg driver June 1 that will have support for the KMS as well as UMS. > The goal is to have this xorg driver out in the wild before the kernel > side is ready so that the migration to the new kernel drivers will be > as painless as possible. My hope is to merge the kernel tree for public > use for Christmas. > This brings up the question I had with the other project leader. > How does one go about merging the tree? What makes this more complex is > that a old via drm kernel driver already exist. Do we just drop in the > code into the staging area? Does it have to be piece meal? Does a rename > of the driver need to happen? What would you recommend ? Suggestion from a drm/i915 hacker: Make a clean split between the old ums driver and the new kms/gem/ttm thing. Not being able to quickly switch between the 2 drivers makes debugging a bit more involved until the kms stuff all works well, but with a everything-smashed-into-one driver you'll sign up for a decent long-term burden. After all, you're never allowed to ditch the old ums/dri1 stuff. For merging I suggest to go through staging - practically no work required for that than to send a big patch to greg kh. Yours, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Mail: daniel@xxxxxxxx Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
