On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:09 +0200, Joshua C. wrote: > 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. > bug number? what kernel did you last test with? stop scare mongering its a beta release, if it still doesn't work at devel freeze I'll blacklist all the broken machines. Dave. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
