On 10 December 2012 11:56, Thierry Reding
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've upload a rebranded and cleaned up version of xf86-video-tegra to a
> repository on gitorious[0]. Don't get too excited, since this is really
> just a fork of the modesetting driver with some unnecessary pieces such
> as PCI support removed.
>
> Aaron had some reservations about calling this xf86-video-tegra because
> it will clash with the binary tegra_drv.so provided by NVIDIA. However I
> couldn't come up with anything more creative. Distributions will have to
> deal with this in some way or another anyway and there really isn't a
> way of running both drivers on top of the same kernel currently, so I
> decided not to care.
>

You cannot run both drivers on top of the same kernel but the X server
could possibly load and probe both drivers in turn and keep the one
that can work with the current kernel.

Perhaps it could be named xf86-video-tegra-kms or something.

Thanks

Michal
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