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Originally posted by Yfrwlf View PostAnd that's wonderful, but it's a patch over the real problem, which is a stable kernel module API, or some kind of stable API somewhere to allow a driver to be installed on a system easily. You can have a stable API and still have feature improvement via forwards compatibility, and even if you switch APIs or have an unstable API, at least make it so all the APIs can be easily installed and used so that users with older drivers won't be left in the dark.
Users don't want to wait around for a driver or some headers to recompile itself whenever they want to use it, nor should they have to and wouldn't if more planning went into the architecture of the system. It looks like they tried to with kernel modules and there are these PPD driver files for printers, but even those aren't using a standard it seems and need recompilation for use on whatever CUPS version is installed.
Any way, it can be a pain, so I hope smarter ways of doing things take hold.
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...i_nonsense.txt
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Users don't want to wait around for a driver or some headers to recompile itself whenever they want to use it, nor should they have to and wouldn't if more planning went into the architecture of the system. It looks like they tried to with kernel modules and there are these PPD driver files for printers, but even those aren't using a standard it seems and need recompilation for use on whatever CUPS version is installed.
Any way, it can be a pain, so I hope smarter ways of doing things take hold.
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Originally posted by thacrazze View PostCatalyst 8.10 supports already a lot of parts of OpenGL 3.0.
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Well Xserver 1.5 support for GeForce 5 and newer exits since end of may (173.14.xx) - ATI has a beta version since mid of october for Ubuntu. That's in best case 4 month after NV. That change was really more important. Smaller kernel ABI changes can be fixed manually, for bigger ones you need new drivers. For 2.6.28 take a look there:
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Awesome, now provide a driver that can be installed on any kernel and won't break with a switch between kernels, a true Linux kernel module that's actually modular, so normal users who don't understand the risk of installing the binary from Nvidia who then do a system update only to find their system totally hosed after it installed a newer kernel for them won't get fXXXed. Maybe the kernel module API needs some stabilization for that to happen, but regardless something needs to happen because it's a problem for many users.
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