On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Corbin Simpson <mostawesomed...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was trying my hardest to not say anything, but... > > [blah blah Fedora blah Ubuntu blah staging blah blah] > > That said... Code probably is moving too fast inside nouveau. There is > a bit of a wall to go through to get new patches upstream, which one > would hope would inspire some developer restraint. intel and radeon > both still have most (if not all) of the legacy code needed by ancient > userspaces, and both DDX drivers are doing multiple-branch releases to > keep old userspace interfaces alive for people unable to update their > kernels. It might be useful for the nouveau guys to really seriously > consider code before it leaves their trees and enters mainline; > writing code that you won't commit to is quite lame for the obvious > reasons, but also for some unobvious reasons, e.g. it makes you look > like you don't actually know what you're doing and would rather just > keep reinventing wheels without justifying and testing your design > choices. (This is also why I was not exactly pleased with the > suggestion of retooling all of the r600 userspace over a change to the > CS system; we just spent the better part of a year moving everything > over to CS!)
Strike this paragraph. After talking with the nouveau guys again, I don't think they were doing anything out of the ordinary for staging drivers. Frustrating, sure, but not anything worth a 200-post flame war. Also, I am a tool, don't know what I'm talking about, not actually a nouveau dev, etc. ~ C. -- Only fools are easily impressed by what is only barely beyond their reach. ~ Unknown Corbin Simpson <mostawesomed...@gmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
