Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | 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 |
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On Thursday 14 December 2006 23:21, Dave Airlie wrote: > On 12/15/06, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 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.
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