Re: Q. about linux 2.4.20 w. bruby II

[<Aiv...@un...>]

>I forgot to say:
>I am under the impression because: "Since
>15-MAY-2003 kernel patch You need not to
>recompile XFree86." that I can run with the 4.2.0
>Debian Xfree86, that is what this is.

This is a political decision.

Kernel recompiling is relative easy and stock Linux
kernel runs fine with any distro.

But distro specific xf86 recompling is horrible, may
be unsuccessful (Mandrake 9.1). Stock xf86 binaries
mostly is incompatible with distro other programs.
Distro must be older than xf86 release.

As a result i push PCI filter into kernel.
This one oppress xf86 folk, because xf86 has nice
assembler based PCI steering code for i386 arch.
Fortunately linux PCI steering via /proc works
flawless and we can use unpatched xf86 binaries.

PCI steering is quite hard code and i hope nobody
touch them in distro specific xf86 release.
So this is safe.

Unsafe things is closed source xf86 drivers of chipset.
In case NVidia xf86 driver load single kernel module
which manage all videocards on the system. Thanks god
it works, but how long.

And without patch of xf86 most AGP servers restart lead
system hang up. Why?

Aivils Stoss