Le lundi 23 mars 2009 à 12:24 +0100, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Sam, 2009-03-21 at 00:52 +0100, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > > That's great news, so we have several possible solutions (which is > > good) : > > > > 1° Easier but not safer : update the whole Xorg > > 2° Adapt the nouveau code to be retro-compatible > > 3° Backport the new EXA interface into Xorg > > 4° Ship extra EXA bits along with xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > > > > What can be done regarding the Debian policies ? I guess the first > > solution won't made it but for the rest... > > > > Michel, are you interested in working on it ? > > I can provide EXA related advice/guidance, but no more. > That's already a very good start. Myself, I'm not an Xorg expert but I have knowledge with C and OpenGL programming (so very, very, basic regarding the task, I guess). But I have some time, would like to try and so on...
Now the big question would be : which of the 4 above propositions could be acceptable for Debian ? (in order to start working at the right place). Thank you, Henry-Nicolas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
