Linus On GEM Patches: UNTESTED CRAP

  2008-10-18 03:30:04
Yesterday we shared that the patches for Intel's GEM (the Graphics Execution Manager) were submitted for inclusion into Linux 2.6.28. Those patches that added in GEM along with a few other Direct Rendering Manager improvements have landed into the mainline Linux git tree, but not without commentary from Linus Torvalds.

Linus became outraged over new DRM warnings and what Linus describes as horribly bad code... 
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