Bringing DRM Drivers Back To Older Linux Kernels

[AJenbo]

Personally i would reather see old GPU's working on newere distros.

[jhansonxi]

Personally i would reather see old GPU's working on newere distros.

I agree. The ABI breakage with Nvidia drivers for older GPUs is really annoying on Ubuntu 12.04 (and related distros). On some systems I'm forced to downgrade X.org.

[popper]

Yes, you will be able to install the newer drivers in 12.04 then. It's easy for people who want to keep compatibility with proprietary driver (needing older kernel version) but also want to use cutting-edge open-source at times. Like me.

well it might (and i stress might) help the likes of the so called "real time" Linux initiative https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/p.../rt/3.0/README but then it will never be as good as the generic free old x86 posix QNX RTP 6.1 etc before BB got their hand on it perhaps michael should git pull it and give it spin to see

[AlbertP]

This is a retarded project.
JUST UPDATE THE FRIKKIN KERNEL IN DOUCHEBUNTU!!!!

Is it so hard to upgrade your kernel manually if you need one?

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=40185