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

[Dave Airlie]

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.

Dave.