Drop Xorg Nv driver?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Mar 30 18:47:35 UTC 2010


Mihai Limbasan wrote:
>   They are deprecating it on *new* hardware - the Fermi architecture and
> the follow-ups. They explicitely state that they're going to continue
> supporting it on existing hardware for the foreseeable future, within
> reason. I don't see why it should get dropped yet.

Because Nouveau replaces it?

That said, there's some ancient chipset series which is supported by nv and 
not by Nouveau, so I guess it's useful to keep nv around for that one.

        Kevin Kofler



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