On Sun, Feb 21, at 02:05 William Immendorf wrote: > Hey all... > > Since Nouveau appeared in Linux-2.6.33, many distros backported the > Nouveau patches (including Fedora) to the 2.6.32.* kernel. I was think > LFS should do this two, and I was planning on making a split Trac > ticket for Nouveau: The first ticket would apply to LFS and it's about > backporting the Nouveau DRM to the kernel, and the second ticket was > acualy adding the X.org driver. But Bruce, not realizing that I > purposely split the tickets, closed the first ticket > (http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2584) saying it belonged > to BLFS, which is partly not true, the kernel part belongs to LFS, and > the X.org/Gallium3D driver belongs to BLFS. Thefore, please reopen > 2584 and I will open a new ticket on BLFS conserning the X.org/Gallium > driver.
I don't think this can be done for the current LFS release that will ship with 2.6.32. The Book already says that the latest available 2.6.32.x should be used. The backported patch, it might be applied to 2.6.32.8 but probably it won't apply to the next minor releases of 2.6.32. I think this ticket should wait for the next LFS release that will update to 2.6.33 and then a BLFS ticket is justified. Generally speaking, I disagree to backport such huge stuff in the kernel, unless it's for a security issue. But the 2.6.32 is already a long term supported kernel, which means in my mind, no new features added but only bug fixes, so this job is already done by the kernel team. Regards, Agathoklis. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
