On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 09:38:49PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: > Am 15.06.2014 14:26, schrieb Ville Syrjälä: > > >We all know nightly is rather broken with 830. Nothing new here. I > >suggest just trying my alm_fixes5 branch. > > Excuse my ignorance, but there is something I do not get. There are patches > that are tested and working. Having them in an off-side repository does not > help users at all, so what stops anyone from either applying these patches > to the kernel, or alternatively removing the 830/845 support from the > current i915 driver and create a separate i830 driver from the current > sources with the patches applied? > > The linux i830 kernel support should be working, and not in the broken state > it is right now - the current state of the affair is not very helpful. > > Thanks for keeping the repository, but that's not a solution, at least not > for most of the remaining users of old hardware. Repositories with patches are normal procedures until those patches are properly tested and reviewed. I don't just merge random stuff. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
