[ltp] Any hope for Radeon M6 LY?

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:18:04 +0100, Tomek Jarzynka <tomeej@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> On Tuesday 18 of January 2005 18:44, Tomek Jarzynka wrote:
> > I can't understand one thing. The page instructs me to
> > build the drm module, while in my kernel CONFIG_DRM can
> > only be y or n, without the possibility to compile this
> > feature as a module. Should I disable the vanilla DRM
> > support, or leave it enabled when loading the newly
> > compiled module?
> >
> "Although the [Faith99] states that the DRM driver has support for loadin=
g
> sub-drivers by calling drmCreateSub, Linus didn't like that approach. He
> wanted all drivers to be independent, so the top-level "DRM" module no lo=
nger
> exists and each DRM module is independent."
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> Ouch, didn't read that.

Actually strangely enough the new 2.6.x drm core goes back to that.=20
There is now a core modules with different chip specifc personality
modules.

Alex

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