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Compat-vga for the Linux kernel

by Ozan Çağlayan for The Linux Foundation

Compat-* packages in general gives the freedom of non-invasively switching to more modern and up-to-date drivers without updating the installed kernel at all. The aim of this project is to provide compat-vga tarballs reflecting the bleeding-edge repositories for being able to offer latest fixes for GPU drivers and to support newer chipsets on all known supported kernel releases listed on kernel.org.