Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Severity: normal Hi,
there are a few problems which will probably prevent nouveau from being added to Squeeze: First, Squeeze is certainly going to be shipped with 2.6.32 since it is a kernel with long-term support from upstream. Since Debian puts a strong emphasis on stability and long-term stable support, it is very likely that it will be shipped with 2.6.32. The problem now is that nouveau modesetting and drm support is not in 2.6.32 but it was first introduced with 2.6.33. Thus, in order to use nouveau together with Squeeze, the nouveau drm and modesetting code will have to be backported from 2.6.33 which Ubuntu did for their due 10.04 release. Secondly, even if the nouveau code gets backported to 2.6.32, there is still the problem that the nouveau xorg driver has received significant changes in the drm API which are incompatible to all drm code prior to 2.6.34. Thus, the current upstream nouveau version cannot be used without a lot of efforts of backporting or people will have to stick to the current version of nouveau from experimental which, however, still needs the backporting of the drm code from 2.6.32 to 2.6.33. My suggestion therefore is to drop nouveau for Squeeze and rather wait until 2.6.34 is released and makes it into unstable. At this point, the kernel will provide all necessary drm and modesetting code in a hopefully mature state. Adrian -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100327232354.28775.23635.report...@z6.physik.fu-berlin.de
