Re: [ubuntu-x] Status of kernel X drivers

2010-02-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 23:20 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] I think this is something we will also consider doing in Debian. A year from now I expect nv to be dead and radeon UMS to be removed upstream, making it impractical to backport new hardware support. Given that, the maintenance

Re: [ubuntu-x] Status of kernel X drivers

2010-02-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 23:20:14 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Fedora has been backporting drm (and nouveau) for a long time but it's not so clear what means for RHEL. I think this is something we will also consider doing in Debian. A year from now I expect nv to be dead and radeon UMS to be

Re: [ubuntu-x] Status of kernel X drivers

2010-02-22 Thread Eric Anholt
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:20:14 +, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:40 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: [...] From apw's Kernel Summary, about why we are going with 2.6.32: The primary decision for the kernel team at UDS is to choose the base kernel

Re: [ubuntu-x] Status of kernel X drivers

2010-02-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:40 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: [...] From apw's Kernel Summary, about why we are going with 2.6.32: The primary decision for the kernel team at UDS is to choose the base kernel version for the release. For Lucid this will be 2.6.32. This version has just