Fedora 7 will ship Nouveau?

[Christopher Blizzard]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:48:51PM -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>  > Warren Togami wrote:
>  > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=634&num=1
>  > > "and the Fedora Project announcing its intent for including Nouveau in 
>  > > the upcoming Fedora 7 release."
>  > > 
>  > > I've seen this mentioned in many news articles without references.
>  > > 
>  > > Huh?
>  > > 
>  > > Is Nouveau really ready for inclusion?  My understanding is that it is 
>  > > nowhere near ready.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Dear god no.  It's not ready by _any_ stretch.
>  
> Devicescape is also by no means 'ready', yet if we want half decent
> wireless, it's 'teh future'.  nouveau shouldn't be any worse than the nv
> driver we already ship in most cases (My laptop triggers one edge case
> where the panel size is misdetected - we patch the nv driver in fedora,
> but nouveau lacks the same change [or better change] right now).
> 
> Getting this into F7 is something we should definitly attempt IMO.
> 
> 		Dave
> 

I got the impression from the preso in .au that it really wasn't working 
at all.  As in, completely unconsumable?

--Chris