new Xorg (KMS, etc.) for Radeon 9600

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 25 00:29:08 UTC 2013


On 24 December 2013 12:41,  <dt71 at gmx.com> wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote, On 12/23/2013 17:50:
>
>> It needs fixing, but the fix needs to be correct.
>
>
> Though a fix should not be delayed by decades...

THe problem here is that a lot of people (and no offence to the patch
author or other developers!) just go "UNLOCK; FOO; LOCK WORKS FOR ME"
and moves on. 99% of the time it's working by magic, rather than
working by intention. The trouble is that it's working, so there's no
reason to invest the real time in fixing the poor locking in the first
place. :)



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