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[pingufunkybeat]

You could pull Linus' 2.6.37 final from git, then only merge the drm changes, leaving the other stuff untouched.

It's possible with git, but you might run into a conflict or two, which you'll have to resolve.

[yotambien]

I unpacked the 2.6.37 tarball. Not sure what to do next

lol you didn't get too far.

Very interesting question, though. I don't know how to do it myself.

[agd5f]

Here's the basics (not sure this is 100% right, doing this from memory):
#clone Linus tree:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
cd linux-2.6
# check out 2.6.37 on a new branch called my-2.6.37
git checkout -b my-2.6.37 v2.6.37
#add Dave's tree:
git remote add airlied git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git
# fetch the updates from Dave's tree
git fetch airlied
# merge drm-next into the current branch
git pull airlied/drm-next

[agd5f]

They are in drm-next which Dave will ask Linus to merge soon.

[pingufunkybeat]

They in the kernel. Does xorg-edgers provide kernels?

[RealNC]

yeah thats really an answer!
are they in linux-next?does xorg-edgers use drm-next?
thats proper community support u would never get from a closed source dev!
thanks

With closed source I can at least update the GPU driver without needing to update the whole freakin' kernel to an experimental, pre-beta version

[pingufunkybeat]

Use closed source then?

[agd5f]

pageflipping requires the kms-pflip branch of the ddx and is on by default.

[agd5f]

is the branch in drm-next? or is git the only way?

That's a ddx (xf86-video-ati) branch, not the kernel:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/log/?h=kms-pflip

[c0un7d0wn]

i think ubuntu has mainline drm next build here http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/drm-next/