On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can't people read or something? I wasn't rude to you. Why must you be rude to me? > 1. X.org ABI for 1.5 is what we ship in F9, this hasn't changed in > months, I've ported 15 other drivers to it in this time. It will not > change before 1.5 final is released. > 2. Nvidia don't release drivers for X.org releases. > 3. Nvidia only bother releasing drivers when a distro has shipped the > ABI. Now we happen to be the first distro to ship most things, so we get > to be distro that nvidia have to port their drivers to. Other distros > lag releasing, however it won't help us if we lag, as Nvidia won't do > anything until one of Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, RHEL, or SLED do a > release. > I was as much responsible for shipping 1.5 pre-release in Fedora as ajax > was, and funnily these threads actually move me to break the nvidia > driver more often rather than less :-) You know a lot more about this stuff then I do but I don't see any thing you posted there to make #3 and #5 any less true. The point I was trying to make in #3 and #5 was consideration for the user in such decisions and noting such things as this in the Release Notes. Thanks, Erich -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
