On 03/06/2010 06:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 14:04:06 -0800, > john wendel <jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> But 2.6.33 has already been released. > > Graphics and kernels are tied together in a way that makes backporting > kernels more difficult. This is part of the reason that you aren't seeing > the new kernels appear in older releases as soon as they used to. > There is long discussion related to this about how the nouveau abi change > makes it hard to switch kernels on the linux kernel mailing list. I use nouveau - and I cannot at present run 2.6.33 or 2.6.34 wihout essentially pulling in a lot of X. Tho' according to satisfy linus' complaint, it looks like on ecould compile the nouveau driver and use that - however - it sure would be nice if the nouveau folks made it easier to run both 2.6.32 and also the newer kernels on F12. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
