Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:14:27 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Oops report for the week preceding June 16th, 2008 |
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> We try to respect the authors of the code when not including them into > the kernel tree for situations like this :) > > As for why Fedora added it, it might be because they can control both > sides of the boundry with matching packages much easier.
That's exactly it. Dave Airlie keeps both the X and kernel side of DRI in check in Fedora, and with him being the DRI maintainer, he tends to have a good handle on the state of things.
Nouveau has been a bit bumpy, and isn't ready for mass-use, which is why we don't enable it by default. We ship it, but a user has to actually install it, and set it up to explicitly use it instead of the 'nv' X driver right now. Given it's there as a sort of 'preview' for interested parties, I don't think the world is ending because we jumped the gun by shipping this even though it's not upstream.
Dave
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