On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 23:20 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
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> I think this is something we will also consider doing in Debian. A year
> from now I expect nv to be dead and radeon UMS to be removed upstream,
> making it impractical to backport new hardware support. Given that, the
> maintenance burden for 2.6.33 drm should be lower. But this is really
> outside my area of expertise and certainly not my decision to make.
I understand that the X maintainers would be happy with this. Do I hear
any objections from the kernel team?
> We should probably also consider what this means for drm on the
> 2.6.32-stable branch. Should the drm developers still send patches
> there as well, where applicable? If all the distributions using 2.6.32
> use the backported drm, should we ask Greg K-H to pull that?
This is yet to be considered.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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