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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:45:05 +0100 From: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> To: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com> Cc: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>, "Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, "Martin Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>, "Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org> Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] On Thursday 14 December 2006 23:39, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > 2D worked the last time I tested it and fixed up all the problems, it > is slightly faster than nv, but may be more unstable, still only > single head... 3D even on x86 doesn't work yet without pre-loading > nvidia to set the hardware up correctly.. but it's coming along.... > there are summary updates posted ~weekly on the nouveau wiki.... Ok, that's nice to hear. :) Can't be much more pain than nv, heh. And as I only have singlehead, anyway, I'll give it a try. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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