On Mon, 04 May 2009 14:33:28 -0400 Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 21:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 05/04/2009 08:28 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > > > > > > Just to underline this point, let's look at what the Moblin FAQ > > > has to say on the subject: > > > > > > Q Is Moblin v2.0 based on another distribution? > > > Moblin v2.0 borrows components from various > > > distributions, but is not based on another distribution. > > > > > > [ source: > > > http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/faq ] > > > > > > This seems... disingenuous? I guess it all depends on what the > > > definition of the word "based" is. It's also the sort of > > > statement that begs immediate deconstruction. If moblin _isn't_ > > > based on another distribution, why does it feel the need to say > > > so. On the other hand, if it is, why does it say it isn't. > > > > I don't see us accomplishing much by stating the obvious, which is > > that Moblin is indeed based on Fedora even if Intel does not want to > > acknowledge that for whatever reasons. Considering that they seem to > > have moved it over to Linux Foundation, it all might just be > > political considerations. Let's move beyond that. > > > > Now, is there useful patches that we need to push upstream? Are > > there additional packages, we can import into Fedora? Let's look at > > that list. We know of sreadahead. Has the kernel portion been > > upstreamed? Arjan pointed out memuse in > > http://lwn.net/Articles/331423/. What's the rest? > > Yeah, how about Poulsbo support? Is anyone at Intel actually working > on upstreaming the unencumbered 2D parts of that, including the > kernel bits and the X driver? Random crack in gregkh's tree doesn't > count. > it's not very useful if the various upstream maintainers say that they won't accept it no matter what... at that point... yes people stop working on it. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
