support for latest (radeon) hardware

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sat Jan 24 19:20:58 UTC 2009



On 24.01.2009 20:03, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 19:23 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>    * bugs OTOH happen and they need to get fixed sooner or later anyway, 
>> as they otherwise will bite the user with the next or overnext Fedora 
>> release, as Fedora users have to update to it sooner or later anyway if 
>> they want to get security fixes for their distro.
>>
>> Please note that above description for the second point leaves out a lot 
>> of details; discussing those here IMHO doesn't make much sense, hence 
>> I'll try to keep away from discussing that point more, because the real 
>> question simply is:
>>
>> How to keep existing people happy while at the same time get drivers for 
>> new hardware out to the users as soon as possible, to make sure that 
>> they can run Linux/Fedora(¹)?

You didn't really answer the question and went into a different 
direction. But I'll follow there for this mail:

> Well there are really two types of users.  Those that want to run
> experimental builds of software and help in the bug finding and fixing
> of our software, and those that don't.

What I'm up to: The latter group wants to have support for their 
hardware as well and that's what we need a solution for.

Cu
knurd






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