Re: X.org plans for the lenny cycle
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:09:41AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:25:31AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > These are a real thorn in our sides. Another issue is the nvidia code
> > obfuscation bug, which we can fix when we get nouveau in to the archive.
> > I'd love to have a dedicated maintainer for nouveau[0], but right now it's
> > looking like I need to buy myself an nvidia card. Either way, that
> > etch-ignore bug will be fixable for lenny thanks to the upstream work.
> >
> > - David Nusinow
> >
> > [0] Anyone who's interested, *please* write us at debian-x. We'd love to
> > help you get going on this.
>
> I may be able to help here. At work, we've got ~300 Debian
> workstations, almost all of which use either ATI or nvidia graphics
> hardware, so I've got extensive hardware resources at my disposal.
That would be awesome!
> I'm not currently up to speed the state of neuveau development, so I
> can't jump right in and get to work, but I should be able to get
> involved reasonably quickly.
Ok, I haven't been tracking things as closely either, so I basically hear
about milestones when they happen.
> Have there been any attempts thus far at packaging neuveau? Where are
> they?
Not that I'm aware of, but it shouldn't be hard to adapt our current
driver packaging to nouveau. It's relatively simple packaging, although we
do have a lot of extra stuff bolted on that will hopefully be mostly going
away during this release cycle. As for nouveau itself, it may need a more
up to date libdrm and mesa than we currently have, although once we get 7.2
in to unstable then experimental can be a playground for that.
- David Nusinow
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