Re: mgadrm fail in -CURRENT

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 18:07 +0200, None wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:43:00PM +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > 
> > >On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 01:01 +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
> > >>Hello All,
> > >>I've just compiled -CURRENT (cvsup some hours ago) and the magdrm seemed
> > >>to be fail.
> > >>Last week's -CURRENT build was okay.
> > >
> > >Do you have device drm in your kernel?
> > >Did you do a clean build?
> > >
> > 
> > Aha, I checked the config/NOTES and noticed that the new line: device drm
> > Thank you :)
> > 
> > >There's no real reason to be building the drm into the kernel that I can
> > >see, as it's automatically loaded for you by the X Server.
> 
> i might be off here, and dont intend to cause any offtopicness, altho i
> was informed perhaphs wrongly, that kernel-builtin drivers are having
> some speed improvements compared to loaded modules?

I've never seen any measurements showing that that's the case, and would
highly doubt there being any measurable effect.

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Eric Anholt                                     eta_at_lclark.edu
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