On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:56 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > From an Ubuntu stable maintenance standpoint we should be able to track a > hybrid of 2.6.33.y for drm and 2.6.32.y for the remainder of the kernel and > due to the separation that drm enjoys we hope to avoid major conflicts. > Plug gaining the longest possible support from upstream for each part. > This will also remove the requirement to install an LBM package to get > Nouveau cleaning up the install significantly. It seems likely that > Debian and other distros will be following a similar hybrid approach > allowing us to share the maintenance burden.
Excellent news. I've been running such a stack for some time now, and it is pretty stable. i965 shows some glyph corruption after a hibernate / resume though, but suspend is very solid. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
