Fedora 7 will ship Nouveau?

Matt Domsch matt at domsch.com
Wed Jan 31 17:43:43 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:44:37AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "WT" == Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> WT> It makes sense as a separate package xorg-x11-drv-nouveau that the
> WT> user may choose to install from the repo and enable manually.
> 
> On the other hand, if they're in the same package then you can do the
> sort of switchover that i810/intel is doing, with cards being
> whitelisted over to the new driver.  So I suppose it's completely
> situation-dependent.  I don't personally think that nouveau is to the
> point where that is a reasonable thing to do now, but judging from the
> current rate of progress, it's not out of the question to think that
> it will be feasible within F7's lifetime.

then Provides/Obsoletes the -nouveau package by the -nv package at
that point.

-Matt




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