Free approx 86 major numbers with a mostly automatically generated patch.
A number of strategic drivers have been left behind by caution, and a few
because they still (ab)use their major number.
Radeon IGP support (still lacking PCI IDs), and DRM interface 1.2 updates which
include finally tying the DRM instances to specific devices rather than relying
on the X Server.
locking, and the apparently unnecessary locking for -stable has been removed.
This may fix issues with missed interrupts since April, which manifested
themselves as slowdowns or hangs in radeon, in particular. Many cleanups also
took place. In the shared code, there are improvements to r128 driver
stability.
of the infrastructure for the gamma driver which was removed a while back.
The DRM_LINUX option is removed because the handler is now provided by the
linux compat code itself.
included in XFree86 4.3, but includes some fixes. Notable changes include
Radeon 8500-9100 support, PCI Radeon/Rage 128 support, transform & lighting
support for Radeons, and vblank syncing support for r128, radeon, and mga.
The gamma driver was removed due to lack of any users.
on -current. Actually copy in data from userspace to kernel in the
linux-compat ioctl path. Make sure ioctl sizes are as expected in the handler
functions.
Reviewed by: rwatson