Re: Getting the Nouveau driver in Lenny and a half

2009-03-24 Thread Henry-Nicolas Tourneur
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). > > > > > > > F

Re: Getting the Nouveau driver in Lenny and a half

2009-03-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
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 >

Re: Getting the Nouveau driver in Lenny and a half

2009-03-20 Thread Henry-Nicolas Tourneur
> 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

Re: Getting the Nouveau driver in Lenny and a half

2009-03-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
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 nou

Re: Getting the Nouveau driver in Lenny and a half

2009-03-20 Thread Henry-Nicolas Tourneur
> > 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 w

Re: Getting the Nouveau driver in Lenny and a half

2009-03-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2009-03-20 at 12:12 +0100, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote: > > 1° Update Xorg to 7.4 and simply compile the futur Nouveau 2D only > driver release. I'm betting on this won't happen since an Xorg update > involved really a lot of changes, right ? > > 2° Adapt the nouveau code to support both