From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964942AbWLNWpm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:45:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964983AbWLNWpm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:45:42 -0500 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:35141 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964942AbWLNWpl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:45:41 -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 23:45:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> <200612142326.43295.mb@bu3sch.de> <21d7e9970612141439s9ff4652tddd0983d19daeed3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970612141439s9ff4652tddd0983d19daeed3@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: <200612142345.06013.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.