[ubuntu-x] Proprietary driver ABI handling

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:11:33PM +0100, Alberto Milone wrote:
> On 31/01/11 03:20, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:40:58AM +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> >> It has the disadvantage that we need to maintain a list of supported
> >> ABIs, and we need to produce the dependency field outside of the xsfbs
> >> helper system, so they could get out of sync.  I don't think these are
> >> big disadvantages, as the supported ABI list changes approximately once
> >> per cycle, and the xsfbs system changes even less often (and we'd need
> >> to deliberately update when it does anyway).
> > 
> > (The kernel also tends to break the proprietary drivers.  Would be nice
> > to have a solution for that as well.)
> > 
> > I think it's an idea worth trying, but might be wisest to leave 'til
> > after alpha-2 as I think it'll need a bit more testing than we have time
> > to coordinate at the moment.
> 
> Are you referring to kernel ABI changes (which, thanks to DKMS, should
> no longer be a problem) or to compatibility with new kernel releases?

The latter.  The ABI breakages seem to be a thing of the past.  :-)

Bryce