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

[Emil Velikov]

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 ?

Regards,
Emil