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Intel and XMir

Intel and XMir

Posted Sep 12, 2013 3:20 UTC (Thu) by maxiaojun (subscriber, #91482)
In reply to: Intel and XMir by salimma
Parent article: Intel and XMir

> To the point that even their laptop collaborations with Dell tend not to work so well when you either install another distro or upgrade major components.

I rather see this as a problem of Linux development model.

So I'm a hardware vendor, I have some drivers not in mainline yet. Can mainlining a driver to a futuristic version, say, 3.12 help me get CentOS 6 work on my laptop model?


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Intel and XMir

Posted Sep 12, 2013 4:37 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Yes. If your driver isn't in the upstream kernel, it's unlikely that Red Hat will backport it.

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