2008/9/11 Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:09 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:06 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: >> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:18 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> > > For the beta we are only going to enable Radeon support for the r300 to >> > > r500 class of hardware, while we await upstream changes to the Intel >> > > driver. >> > >> > ... we really shouldn't shove in major changes like this for a >> > significant chunk of hardware post-beta. Putting it in the beta means >> > that we get a relatively large chunk of testing done due to the >> > visibility surrounding the beta announce. As well as having time to fix >> > large problems that are uncovered. Later milestones both a) lack the >> > time for changes after them and b) the visibility. >> >> So are you saying: >> >> a) enable it for both, see what breaks > > I've been advocating us getting the pieces merged for a long time so > that we could see what was broken rather than trying to wait for a > mythical "perfection" that's been just another week or two out for on > the order of months now. > >> b) remove both, because, screw it > > This is a part of the contingency plan. But removing for both seems a > little extreme. > > There's also c) Just enable it for radeon. Intel users get pretty > modesetting for F11. It's only six months away. Adding the Intel > support post-beta just leaves us with way too little runway of testing > on what's a significant amount of the hardware running Fedora. And one > of the big reasons behind the six month release cycle is that if > something is late to the party for release n, n+1 is not that far away. > > Jeremy > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > Is there a list of cards that work with this (already tested)? f10 is just a month away and my rs485 still cannot function with this code. It's an important feature and if it cannot work, then maybe the contingency plan should be applied. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
