support for latest (radeon) hardware

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sat Jan 24 17:51:00 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 18:34 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>  
> * Fedora in most areas is good for new hardware, as you get new drivers 
> (hplip, gutenprint, sane,...) and even new kernels as regular update, 
> which improves hardware support (especially for current hardware) over 
> time. But Fedora not only would be "good for new hardware", it could 
> have "fantastic support for new hardware" if support for other new 
> hardware (like the big bunch of the Radeon HD 4xxx series) also could 
> find it's way into the stable distro.

Keep in mind that this constant kernel revving comes with a cost.  Look
at the bodhi karma each time we try to bring a new kernel version to a
release.  For everything we fix, we likely break something else (like
various sound issues on intel recently).  Upstream isn't perfect, and if
I had to choose between supporting new people, or keeping existing
people unbroken, I'll choose on the side of existing people every time.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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