32 bits X vs. 64 bits PCI

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Tue Oct 24 07:59:05 PDT 2006


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Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:52:03AM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> I know Iain was working on a new library for putting the PCI stuff in,
>>> what is the status of that ?
>> Right.  Like dstone mentioned, libpciaccess is in git, and there are
>> pci-rework branches in xserver, drivers/xf86-video-mga, and
>> drivers/xf86-video-savage.  They're all a few weeks out of date WRT HEAD.
>>
>> My intention is to bring them up to date and merge them to HEAD once 7.2
>> ships.  That's when the real fun should begin. :)
> 
> Why wait?  server-1.2-branch is already branched, master is getting i-h
> dumped on it reasonably soon, so why not add pci-rework if it's ready?

I suppose I could.  The only problem is that I would have to merge the
driver pci-rework branches to their respective HEADs as well.  That
feels like it might add a bit more chaos than we want a month before a
release.

Opinions?
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