On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2008 15:10:28 -0700 > "Christopher Stone" <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Christopher Stone >> > <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Until nVidia gets their act together?? What the H.E. double hockey >> >> sticks are you talking about? nVidia can't do anything until xorg's >> >> ABI is *stable*. They cannot keep chasing a moving target. If xorg >> >> declared today that the ABI will be stable then perhaps nVidia can get >> >> working on new drivers. Perhaps xorg has already done this?? >> > >> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=107725 >> > 05-13-08, 12:48 AM >> > "I got assurance from the release manager that the ABI won't be >> > changing between now and the official xserver 1.5 release, so the ABI >> > will be marked as supported in the next driver release so that >> > -ignoreABI won't be required." >> >> Okay, this is good news. I'll post on the nVidia forums to make sure >> they know. I still think it's a bit uncalled for to say nVidia should >> get their act together when the ABI was only declared stable last >> week. >> >> > >> >> >> >> And I don't see why you can't have two different xorg packages. We >> >> have other compat packages with gcc and libstdc++, etc... >> > >> > I think you are over-simplifying the complexity of what it would take >> > to make such a scheme work for the "framework" that is X. If you can >> > do it, and make it work seemlessly, more power to you. But I have no >> > doubt that it is wrong to make this sort of demand on ajax's time. >> > We've seen compatibility issues in the past with regard to nvidia on >> > release day. There is absolutely nothing new here. >> >> As I stated in my original post "just how hard can it be to provide >> compatibility packages?" From what I understand, you could just drop >> in the F8 packages right into F9 and that's all that is required. >> Then nVidia users could use the f8 version of xorg while everyone else >> could use the f9 version. Why is it not that simple? > > If it's that simple, you should be able to do it yourself. The code is > there. Have at it. > > (HINT: It's not simple at all) According to this thread it seems pretty simple actually: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=188645 If redhat wants to pay me $100k a year, I'll happily make xorg compat rpms in about one day. Thank you very much. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
