any nouveau refresh in f16 beta?

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 12:48:32 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed Oct 12 01:30:57 UTC 2011 Adam Williamson wrote:
>> There's nothing really interesting in the xorg-x11-drv package any more.
>> All the interesting bits are in the kernel module, which gets updated
>> very frequently.
>
> Ok.
> So the link I gave:
> http://nouveau.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=nouveau/envytools;a=commitdiff;h=b645e6f7d9f204a9176747f129e9e365dcd877ce
> is somethng about kernel part of nouveau?

No this is completely unrelated.

> In this case how can I know if there should be any support for NVD9
> (GT520 on a laptop... GF119 chipset) in my current kernel in F15 (
> 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64) or current kernel available in F16?
> Any modinfo switch ? Or should I download source.rpm?
>
> rpm -q --changelog against 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 gives only:
>
> * Thu Aug 25 2011 Ben Skeggs
> - nouveau: add patch fixing ttm issues that lead to oopses/corruption
> (rhbz#699551)
>
> * Tue Aug 23 2011 Ben Skeggs
> - nouveau: pull patches from 3.1 to fix some suspend/hibernate
> problems (rhbz#730582)

The rpm changelog does not contain all the changes made upstream.


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