Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: New proposed DRM interface design | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:39:34 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2004-09-04 at 13:04, Dave Airlie wrote: > I've got nothing to do with Tungsten whatsoever, I've never met any of the > other major DRI developers, my worries here is this is turning into a > company issue, people keep mentioning Fedora this and that, Fedora is one > distro, I happen to use it, lots of people I know dont.. it supports DRI > on IGP and i915 in Fedora 3 Test only, a DRI snapshot works on FC1 and > FC2 as well..
Fedora essentially solves the problem with regularly release cycles and policy. So once we know 2.6.10 or whatever is stable we can push that for FC2 and FC3. We can push Xorg for FC2 because its in the distribution description. Same for Gentoo except they'll probably ship it before Fedora does.
> Again what about distros that only do security upgrades in stable > releases, I would like to give those people a chance to use their graphics > cards, and the snapshots are not the only way,
For these setups the snapshots work well because you can package up an extra driver in the knowledge that the vendor isnt going to do something "Neat". If you want i915 in RHEL3 then that would certainly be the path to take for example.
Distribution policies in part dictate the method. It doesn't imply any one distribution policy is somehow "right".
Alan
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