On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> >RHL9 ok, on the proviso that someone checks that codebase out
and makes
> >sure its safe.
>
> Alan's the only one I know with VIA EPIA hardware off the top of
> my mind. ;o) Oh, also, even if the kernel doesn't have the
> support, the driver should work 2D only, so X isn't dependant on
> the kernel support being there for driver operation, just for
> DRI. (I suspect you know that, but others reading are likely not
> to.)
And asking people to just run a FC1 kernel on their RH9 box if they
absolutely must have 3D on their EPIA isn't completely unreasonable either.
Apart from the gcc32 dependancy (--nodeps or a fake package providing a
handy symlink :-) ) they work just fine (I do this to get aironets that have
visited a windows box and thus have received an updated firmware that
doesn't work with older linux drivers to work)
Since the driver functions even when DRI isn't available, while I
would prefer the kernel would be released beforehand with via
support, it wouldn't hold me up. However, the likelyhood of a
new kernel coming out with via DRM support sooner than a new
XFree86 coming out with the driver is much higher. ;o)
--
Mike A. Harris
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat