On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:33:49PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 22:15 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > I'd like to pull nouveau from 2.6.33 into Debian's 2.6.32. I'm hoping > > > this would allow for replacement of nv and its dodgy source with nouveau > > > > This sounds like a good idea, but I should probably point out that I don't > > think we will be able to replace nv in squeeze with nouveau. > > Why not? Does it not support all the same hardware as nv, or is it > still too unstable? > > > Would this this affect whether you want to spend time on it now? As you > > imply, we get this "for free" by waiting for .33, and I will have to get > > some -snapshot packages into testing anyway.. > > squeeze will be released with 2.6.32. The release of .33 will be too > close to the freeze date. >
It's worth noting that Fedora 12 already ships Nouveau, with 2.6.31 kernel. So it should be usable.. although I think Fedora has a lot of additional patches for drm/ttm/kms/nouveau. -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
