Have the drm.git kernel modules been abandoned?

[bridgman]

I think we'll see distro schedules and kernel schedules gradually align themselves so that non-enterprise distros will automatically pick up the most recent kernel release while it's still fresh. Right now kernel packagers need to plan around both X and kernel release schedules in order to pick up new hardware, but as hardware-specific code moves out of the X drivers and into either the kernel or Gallium3D this should become a lot easier for everyone to manage.

I'm not sure if the Gallium3D code is built as a separate library or is linked into the state tracker, but there's a good argument for having it independent of the state trackers so that only the Gallium3D library needs to be updated. This is all "next year" stuff of course; there aren't enough drivers using Gallium3D yet for this to be a practical solution for distros today.

[Kano]

The drm git would be also usefull when it would only work with the current kernel, because it is not really a good idea to compile the whole kernel over and over again after a small change when only drm would be needed.

[suokko]

The drm git would be also usefull when it would only work with the current kernel, because it is not really a good idea to compile the whole kernel over and over again after a small change when only drm would be needed.

make modules SUBDIRS=drivers/gpu/
sudo make modules_install SUBDIRS=drivers/gpu/

[Kano]

Well ok, but why do i need to checkout the whole kernel tree when i only need drm?

[nanonyme]

Well ok, but why do i need to checkout the whole kernel tree when i only need drm?

Because that's the way Linux works? It's not like you could build DRM anyway without something to build it against.

[chithanh]

Hmm, that's the DRM with security issues? Does anyone use Mach64 anymore anyway?

It had security issues, but these were fixed some time ago:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIMach64

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-October/019137.html

[Kano]

Sure, but the checkout was MUCH smaller.

[nanonyme]

It had security issues, but these were fixed some time ago:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIMach64

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/019137.html

Just my opinion but I think if it's been made secure, it should just be cleaned up and merged into the kernel. No use having it hanging loose and eventually dying out. :3

[RealNC]

AFAIK, the Mach64 X driver doesn't actually need DRM to provide acceleration. I suppose that's the reason the DRM driver isn't getting merged.

[nanonyme]

AFAIK, the Mach64 X driver doesn't actually need DRM to provide acceleration. I suppose that's the reason the DRM driver isn't getting merged.

Well, it's not like you would need DRM for any card (until KMS).