On Fre, 2009-03-20 at 17:19 +0100, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote: > > > > There are other potential options, e.g. > > > > * Backport EXA changes required by nouveau to the lenny > > xserver-xorg-core. This might benefit other drivers as well. > > * Ship EXA bits required by nouveau as part of > > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. > > > > > Of course that would be great, but (correct me if I'm wrong) if we do > that (point 1), we will change the EXA Xorg interface, therefore, we > will have to update all X drivers and that will also make a lot of > updates.
No, EXA has been backwards compatible since before xserver 1.1, so the drivers should continue working without a rebuild (and also with one). > For the second solution, I definitely don't know enough either Xorg or > nouveau to know if that would be easy or not. It shouldn't be too hard. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
