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authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2009-01-27 18:00:45 -0800
committerEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2009-01-27 18:00:45 -0800
commite37bd24d3c99319b372517c2ddb77bfb4829f1df (patch)
treead5eaf3732f27c5f0d070b9a7dd8ea24b3530c0e
parentcbdd6272c04f487c8a63b595829d2d551e2b58f8 (diff)
Clean up README for the current state of kernel module affairs.
Bug #19608.
-rw-r--r--README9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 40f7e114..b6008a02 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ DRM README file
There are two main parts to this package: the DRM client library/interface
-(libdrm.so) and kernel/hardware-specific device modules (such as i915.ko).
-
+(libdrm.so) and kernel/hardware-specific device modules (such as radeon.ko).
+The kernel device modules are not shipped with libdrm releases and should only
+be built from the git tree by developers and bleeding-edge testers of
+non-Intel hardware. The Intel kernel modules are developed in the Linux
+kernel tree.
Compiling
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ Then,
make install
-To build the device-specific kernel modules:
+To build the device-specific kernel modules from the git tree:
cd linux-core/
make