X.org server 1.5: An ABI Too Far?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 20:56:24 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 13:30 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Their official position 
> has been stated at nvnews.net that they intend to wait for the official release 
> of xorg 7.4.  I think the unstable ABI is being used as an excuse not to get the 
> driver done.  It will look bad on both their part and on Fedora's part *again* 
> if a Fedora release goes out on which the nvidia proprietary driver cannot be 
> used.  I don't think it is something that is Fedora's problem though.

Last time we (not really, but you know what I mean) hosed ATI. Now it's
nVidia's turn. Consider it proof of failure of the "Proprietary Driver
Model".

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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