http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19644





--- Comment #3 from Maarten Maathuis <[email protected]>  2009-01-18 
14:37:13 PST ---
radeonhd was a driver born out of some corporate agreement, and there probably
was a requirement was that it ran without a kernel module (this all imo).

nouveau was born for very different reasons, and doing a full driver does
require a kernel module. So to avoid all sorts of nasty special code paths
(which are bothersome to maintain and potentially buggy) the project leader
decided to require a kernel module. This has been the case from day 1 as far as
i know.


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