Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964875AbWLNW1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:27:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964919AbWLNW1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:27:53 -0500 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:53399 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964888AbWLNW1w (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:27:52 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: "Dave Airlie" Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:26:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> <4581726B.9050006@garzik.org> <21d7e9970612141421o79a47705i8a87adbdcbf8b3a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970612141421o79a47705i8a87adbdcbf8b3a9@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Alan , "Rik van Riel" , "Greg KH" , "Jonathan Corbet" , "Andrew Morton" , "Martin Bligh" , "Michael K. Edwards" , "Linus Torvalds" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff Garzik" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612142326.43295.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1427 Lines: 33 On Thursday 14 December 2006 23:21, Dave Airlie wrote: > On 12/15/06, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Alan wrote: > > > Another thing we should do more is aggressively merge prototype open > > > drivers for binary only hardware - lets get Nouveau's DRM bits into the > > > kernel ASAP for example. > > > > ACK++ We should definitely push Nouveau[1] as hard as we can. > > > > Jeff > > > > It'll get in when the developers feel it is at a stage where it can be > supported, at the moment (I'm not speaking for all the nouveau team > only my own opinion) the API isn't stable and putting it into the > kernel only means we've declared the API supportable, I know in theory > marking it EXPERIMENTAL might work, in practice it will just cause us > headaches at this stage, there isn't enough knowledgeable developers > working on it both support users and continue development at a decent > rate, so mainly ppl are concentrating on development until it can at > least play Q3, and for me dualhead on my G5 :-) To what degree does it work on the G5? Can we already drive a desktop system with it? I'd like to play around with this on my Quad. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/