On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 20:37:27 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-03-28 19:57 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 19:25:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 16:17:00 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > > >> >> The only remedy for that would be if the Debian kernel team could pull > >> >> nouveau drm from 2.6.34 rather than 2.6.33. They are probably not going > >> >> to do that, but I'd have a good argument for it. The 2.6.33 nouveau > >> >> module needs non-free firmware blobs called ctxprogs to initialize the > >> >> GPU. It works without them, but there won't be any acceleration then. > >> >> In 2.6.34, the driver has code to do that itself, so the firmware is no > >> >> longer necessary. > >> >> > >> On 2010-03-28 16:36 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> > >> > That's only true for some chips (nv50 IIRC). You'd still need firmware > > > > nv40 actually. > > Not quite, for nv40 there's a generator in 2.6.33 already. 2.6.34 has > added one for nv50. > > >> > for the rest. > >> > >> I see. Loading external firmware is disabled by default in 2.6.34, it > >> requires the ctxfw module parameter. > >> > > This doesn't seem to have changed between .33 and .34 afaict? > > Yes and no. In 2.6.33, loading external firmware is enabled by default > for NV50 cards, and apparently only for them. Incidentally, I have such > a card… > Ah, you're right. I was going with the help string for the ctxfw parameter, which hasn't been updated. There doesn't seem to be any MODULE_FIRMWARE declarations left in nouveau; it may be worth cherry-picking that to the debian kernel.
> >> ISTM this has the problem that the get-orig-source target will still run > >> the unpatched configure.ac, so that is necessary to re-run autoconf at > >> package build time. Maybe it is best to not include generated files in > >> the .orig.tar.gz at all? > >> > > for all other X drivers we ship the pristine tarball, but delete the > > generated files on clean and run autoreconf on build. For nouveau you > > could do something similar I think. Could the get-orig-source target be > > a simple invocation of git archive, until the driver gets a real > > release? > > I would prefer that. Shipping generated files in the .orig.tar.gz that > are deleted by the clean target only makes sense to me when I have a > pristine upstream tarball in the first place. > Makes sense to me. Cheers, Julien
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