2011/3/19 Julien Cristau <[email protected]>:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 00:58:58 +0100, Thomas Schneider wrote:
>
>> nouveau+drm is since the linux kernel version 2.6.34 integrated by 
>> default.So since it supports more cards like fermi (sadly not old river nv03 
>> cards) it would be best to set nouveau as standard
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Schneider <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c |    7 ++++++-
>>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c
>> index 447b192..b20b2e4 100644
>> --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c
>> +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c
>> @@ -1123,7 +1123,12 @@ videoPtrToDriverList(struct pci_device *dev,
>>           break;
>>       case 0x102b:                driverList[0] = "mga";      break;
>>       case 0x10c8:                driverList[0] = "neomagic"; break;
>> -     case 0x10de: case 0x12d2:   driverList[0] = "nv";       break;
>> +     case 0x10de: case 0x12d2:
>> +     #ifdef __linux__
>> +     driverList[0] = "nouveau";      break;
>> +     #else
>> +     driverList[0] = "nv";   break;
>> +     #endif
>
> nv should probably still be added as a fallback on linux.  Also, does
> this mean the nouveau people will start doing proper ABI management for
> libdrm_nouveau (i.e. bump SONAME when they break ABI, for a start)?
>
The abi only breaks when the distribution uses to old nouveau code.
Normally the ABI does not break and many distributions already use
nouveau as default without any problems.
To get a greater range of supported device adding nv as fallback is a good idea.
>>       case 0x1106:                driverList[0] = "openchrome"; break;
>>          case 0x1b36:             driverList[0] = "qxl"; break;
>>       case 0x1163:                driverList[0] = "rendition"; break;
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>

kind regards
Thomas
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