Linus Wants Nouveau Merged Into Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linus Wants Nouveau Merged Into Kernel

This morning the first DRM pull request went in for the Linux 2.6.33 kernel that brings many nice graphics changes for Intel, ATI/AMD, and VMware users. Anything for NVIDIA hardware through Novueau was not mentioned as there is no readied support, but as we stated in our article this morning, its unlikely to see Nouveau's DRM in the mainline kernel before the Linux 2.6.34 kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Nzc5MA

[Kano]

The idea is really good, it shouldn't be that bad when Fedora ships it by default. But then go further and do the same for aufs2 please - Ubuntu ships it too by default.

[johnny]

The idea is really good, it shouldn't be that bad when Fedora ships it by default. But then go further and do the same for aufs2 please - Ubuntu ships it too by default.

aufs will probably never be merged, the vfs maintainers are looking for other solutions, like union mounts instead.

[Kano]

Well the current solutions like Fedora/Moblin uses without aufs2 is not that good. It restricts the usable space too much - not just the size of the tmpfs used for aufs which could be increased easlyly with a remount,size=xG.

[Xheyther]

The mailing list client at sourceforge really sucks. I didn't manage to view the entire thread :/
Anyway, for Nouveau, it seems that their are issues with some microde that need to be solved too.

[AdamW]

"David Airlie nor any of the Nouveau developers have yet to comment on this thread, but we are awaiting their response(s). "

Note that it's currently the middle of the night in Australia, where Red Hat's nouveau developer (Ben Skeggs) lives. (Also where Dave lives, for that matter).

[Michael]

"David Airlie nor any of the Nouveau developers have yet to comment on this thread, but we are awaiting their response(s). "

Note that it's currently the middle of the night in Australia, where Red Hat's nouveau developer (Ben Skeggs) lives. (Also where Dave lives, for that matter).

Yep, I know their locations, I am just commenting though that they haven't said an official response yet.

[bugmenot]

there are a few interesting responses:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...ewmonth=200912

(also unfortunatley unable to show the thread)

[johnny]

Well the current solutions like Fedora/Moblin uses without aufs2 is not that good. It restricts the usable space too much - not just the size of the tmpfs used for aufs which could be increased easlyly with a remount,size=xG.

that may be the case, but that doesn't help get aufs merged when the vfs maintainers are against it so completely.
You should look into union mounts status.

[pipe13]

I've heard all the excuses. If it isn't ready, they shouldn't ship it to millions of people.

Geeeeee whillickers, Mr Torvalds! What part of "perpetual beta-ness of Fedora" don't you understand?