Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Les Mikesell]

Dave Airlie wrote:
> > 
> Let me repeat via cut-n-paste:
> 1. X.org ABI for 1.5 is what we ship in F9, this hasn't changed in
> months, I've ported 15 other drivers to it in this time. It will not
> change before 1.5 final is released.

Seems odd that you knew it wasn't going to change and had time to port 
drivers but no one else knew.

> 2. Nvidia don't release drivers for X.org releases.

Are you speaking for them?  On their own Linux forum someone who appears 
to be an employee says:

"Full support, including GLX support, for xorg-server 1.5 will be 
available in a future driver release after the video driver ABI has been 
finalized"

That sorta sounds like a plan to release a driver for the Xorg release 
to me.  Too bad we haven't had one.  Or an announcement that the ABI was 
finalized by the time that was written.

> I was as much responsible for shipping 1.5 pre-release in Fedora as ajax
> was, and funnily these threads actually move me to break the nvidia
> driver more often rather than less :-)

Gotta love the spirit of cooperation here.  Can you break VMware and 
skype a little more too for the trifecta of linux-supporting vendors?

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   Les Mikesell
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