Re: Drop Xorg Nv driver?

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On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 20:47 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, the Riva 128 and Riva TNT (aka nv01 and nv02). I think I've come
across two people still running these cards :). They do work with vesa,
though...not as fast as nv.
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