On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:00:29 +0200 Eric Valette <eric.vale...@free.fr> wrote:
> I've been using nouveau driveau for 8 months or so, using automated > build from drm git, xf86-video-nouveau git and even sometimes mesa drm > git and discovered the linux-core build did not build the nouveau > driver the hard way: X was refusing to start as the nouveau.ko modules > was not loaded nor build. Build process did chnage without obvious way > to know womething was wrong. Nouveau was removed from make targets, therefore you get this: $ make nouveau.o make: *** No rule to make target `nouveau.o'. Stop. The removal was done in a commit, that removed the old ttm code, and at the same time broke the nouveau.ko build, hence nouveau is not a target anymore. The plain 'make' of course works, since there are other modules that (supposedly) still work. Btw. Nouveau should fall back to NoAccel mode, if the kernel modules are not available. > Then I tried to build it by hand as the nouveau directory is still there > but compilation fails! I wonder why the code is still in the tree as it > make me waste quite some time trying to find where the missing > definitions had gone. The nouveau directory? > After some hours of goggling I discovered there was an git kernel tree > for nouveau. Got the feeling from dri-devel posts it was supposed to be > merged for rc1, checked master tree and found it was not merged. I assume you refer to the discussion http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2009-June/003103.html The only merge mentioned is newTTM, which went into -rc1 along with the radeon KMS driver. Nouveau depends on newTTM, and we wanted it upstream before setting up the master branch. > So my question are: > - Why not purely delete nouveau files from linux-core and issue > error messages? The code is still in the tree for historical reference, and for BSDs. I'm not sure if BSDs still need it. > - When will nouveau in kernel git tree be merged? I know the merge > windows is closed but that usually does not hold for new drivers This Nouveau kernel tree will never be merged from. A completely separate git repository will be created for upstreaming Nouveau. A proposition was made in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2009-March/002765.html and we are approximately following that. The precise development model is still under discussion and has to be decided before creating the upstreaming tree. There's a good chance the upstreaming tree is created this year, and Nouveau starts its journey into mainline, but first into staging. > Thanks. Using nouveau is quite painfull. Please be aware that as > distribution move too slowly into nominal nouveau driver support, I'm > not probably the only guy lost in the dust. Yes, and we are trying to alleviate the pain by keeping the guides in the wiki up-to-date. Granted, there were the few days, when drm.git nouveau.ko build was broken, and the InstallDRM page was not written yet, nor InstallNouveau updated. IIRC that was less than a week. Unfortunately, some people want to translate wiki pages to their mother tongue, and then do not bother updating them for a long time. The English pages contain the latest information. This is the original announcement: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2009-June/003000.html later we got master and master-compat branches up and deprecated everything else. For further info, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2009-June/003134.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2009-July/003148.html and the Nouveau wiki. The nouveau kernel tree was annouced on the wiki front page, and on the nouveau mailing list. What more should we have done? -- Pekka Paalanen http://www.iki.fi/pq/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
