Bug 9367

Summary: Patch to ignore requests for loading obsolete drm module?
Product: xorg Reporter: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: boiko, mat
Version: 7.0.99.903 (7.1RC3)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Bug Blocks: 6666    
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Description Stefan Dirsch 2006-12-16 10:28:29 UTC 
ATI/AMD just announced a new fglrx driver (8.32.5) claiming X.Org 7.2
support. It has been developed and tested with openSUSE 10.2, which
still ships X.Org 7.2 RC2. Unfortunately it turned out to be *not*
compatible with RC3 since the "drm" module has been merged into the
"dri" module between RC2 and RC3 and the driver relies on loading the
"drm" module, which now no longer exists. :-( The result is a driver
with DRI disabled.

ATI/AMD already has a fix for the next driver release (8.33). They use
a monthly release schedule. Question is if X.Org 7.3 final should
address this issue. There might be other drivers affected as well.

I've attached a proposal for a patch. Let me know what you
think. Thanks.

See also discussion on xorg ML.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-December/020501.html
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2006-12-16 10:29:39 UTC 
Created attachment 8139 [details] [review]
libdrm.diff
Comment 2 Dave Airlie 2006-12-16 15:29:01 UTC 
7.2 RM can decide if fglrx matters or not.
Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2007-01-14 00:17:58 UTC 
The patch is no longer required since fglrx driver release 8.33.6.

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