[Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Thu Aug 19 11:13:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:32:58PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > However not this part. Only small commits are fixes and I consider the
> > rest as hacks.
> Which commits in particular?

As documented: bcf16b6b4f34fb40a7aaf637947c7d3bce0be671, a merge commit.

>                              Have you raised your concerns upstream?

Which upstream? The DRM people are upstream for AGP. I doubt that they
even got there.

> (or something equivalent). While these are clearly not suitable for
> upstream they are correct as far as they go. Excluding them from the xen
> flavour of the kernel seems a bit extreme.

Someone have to explain them to the release team. As they are clearly
not even remotely suitable for upstream, I'm not going to stretch the
own rules further.

> It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the
> modern graphics subsystem when running Xen.

Well. All the intel cards seems to work.

Bastian

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