[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/6] winsys/radeon: drop support for DRM 2.12.0

[Marek Olšák]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 February 2016 at 01:27, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 February 2016 at 11:15, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Marek,
>>>
>>> On 24 February 2016 at 23:09, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>>>>
>>>> in order to make some winsys interface changes easier
>>>
>>> Please add to the commit message the linux kernel version - 3.2.0 .
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity I looked at current kernel versions of currently
>>> supported distros. Here are names that might cause contention points,
>>> although I seriously doubt any of these will use bleeding edge mesa
>>> ;-) Marek feel free to any of it in the commit message.
>>>
>>> Distro    kernel  mesa    eol
>>> SLES 10   2.6.16  6.4.2   2016-07
>>> SLED 11   3.0     9.0.3   2022-03
>>> RHEL 5    2.6.18  6.5.1   2017-03
>>> RHEL 6    2.6.32  10.4.3  2020-11
>>> Debian 6  2.6.32  7.7.1   2016-02
>>
>> At least for RHEL6 we might use latest mesa, but we also backport the
>> kernel drm layer
>> so it supports a newer version.
>>
> Thanks Dave. Bth I'm not sure if I should feel happy or a bit sad,
> considering the serious backporting that will be required.
> You guys are crazy - in a good way :-)
>
> Egbert, can you check with the team if the above would be fine with
> you guys ? [Please say yes, please say yes]
> I take it that you're not planning on doing drm backports ?

They are probably not using old DRM + new mesa. It's a dangerous
combination and I don't think such old DRM supported all of r600g
hardware even and was likely not super stable either.

Marek