On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The point is that it moved to the staging tree now, where further > development will take place. After a while, there won't be an > out-of-tree version anymore because all development happens in the > official kernel git tree. > An example of this is intel: there's several kernel trees around with > intel drivers, but no possible way to build intel drm out of tree. > > All development happens in that git tree : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/ This is then merged to drm-next and then to linus tree. If you just fetch that, you indeed cannot do an out-of-build tree, you have to build the whole kernel. But it's possible to write a Makefile that makes it possible : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/plain/nouveau/Makefile?h=master-compat This Makefile allows to only build the relevant drm/nouveau code, and apparently also to create an archive of it. I don't see why this should stop being possible, and why it would not be possible to do the same with other drivers.
