rawhide report: 20061118 changes
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 22:36:35 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:33 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 11:28 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:16 -0500, buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
> > > * Fri Nov 17 2006 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 2.3.0-1.fc7
> > > - Update to 2.3.0 from upstream.
> > > - Add nouveau userspace header.
> >
> > Hey, looking good. What's the consequence of this? We can start hacking
> > nouveau[1] easily? Or am I getting excited over nothing?
>
> That too. Or, if you just want to run it, you can do that too ;)
>
> The nouveau driver requires a DRM component in the kernel (the good
> kind, not the RIAA kind), which I have more or less merged and am really
> just waiting for the kernel to be in a buildable state before pushing to
> rawhide.
That was my next question :-)
> After that piece lands, the xorg-x11-drv-nv package will
> install two drivers, nv and nouveau, similar to the i810/intel bundle.
> As mentioned later in the thread, nv will still be the default.
Is this what upstream us going to do, i.e. what's the benefit to doing
this, rather than just including a new package xorg-x11-drv-nouveau?
> So basically, if you want to work on nouveau, all the source and all the
> buildreqs will already be set up for you. Yay! If instead you just
> want to try it and compare, you can do that too. Also yay!
Legend, thanks.
Richard.
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