Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Andrew Farris]

Erich Zigler wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Had Fedora not released with the new Xorg
>> ABI nvidia would probably still not be actively working on it yet.
> 
> Actually development looks like it started before Fedora 9 released:
> 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=111460

Yes, but my point is that it was pushed forward due to the impending release of 
Fedora 9 and otherwise probably would not have been started until another distro 
released with the xserver changes.  NVIDIA is not going to do a driver update 
only because the xorg server releases; they will do it when/if a release is 
adopted by a popular distribution.  That pattern has been well established over 
the last 6-8 years.

Also, the 173.08 beta driver wasn't even really targeted at xserver 1.5 since it 
still didn't have the abi marked supported.  It just happens to partially work, 
for some graphics cards (and not for alot of them).

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