[ubuntu-x] Kernel v2.6.33 drm update

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:32:05PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:56:11PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> >>> We are therefore planning to upload a hybrid
> >>> 2.6.32 kernel containing the 2.6.33 drm backported.
> >>
> >> Btw, for bug report fiddling purposes, is there a reliable way to detect
> >> the drm version installed?  The drm version does not show up in uname -a
> >> of course, and `dmesg|grep drm|grep 2\.6\.33` returns nothing (at least,
> >> on nouveau).
> >>
> >> (Basically I want a way to automatically distinguish between bug reports
> >> that were tested with the new 2.6.33 drm vs those that won't, so we can
> >> prioritize our attentions accordingly.)
> >
> > Isn't the kernel abi enough for that? -16 has the backport, anything
> > before that doesn't.
> 
> Right but its still good to know a backport from which 2.6.33.y

Fair point.  Right now we have v2.6.33 straight.  But I do see how we
might want some finer grain record of the version.  I will look at where
we can expose that.

-apw