On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Can't people read or something?
I wasn't rude to you. Why must you be rude to me?
1. X.org ABI for 1.5 is what we ship in F9, this hasn't changed
in
months, I've ported 15 other drivers to it in this time. It will not
change before 1.5 final is released.
2. Nvidia don't release drivers for X.org releases.
3. Nvidia only bother releasing drivers when a distro has shipped the
ABI. Now we happen to be the first distro to ship most things, so we get
to be distro that nvidia have to port their drivers to. Other distros
lag releasing, however it won't help us if we lag, as Nvidia won't do
anything until one of Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, RHEL, or SLED do a
release.
I was as much responsible for shipping 1.5 pre-release in Fedora as ajax
was, and funnily these threads actually move me to break the nvidia
driver more often rather than less :-)
You know a lot more about this stuff then I do but I don't see any
thing you posted there to make #3 and #5 any less true. The point I
was trying to make in #3 and #5 was consideration for the user in such
decisions and noting such things as this in the Release Notes.
Thanks,
Erich