Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On the other hand, how much of this is true:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=103059&highlight=xorg+1.5
Is it the case that "The Rawhide packages, despite having 1.4.x version
numbers, are actually built from the development branch that will
eventually become xserver 1.5, and are not endorsed or supported by the
X.org Foundation."?
The response there is pretty accurate, the F9 packages are the upstream xserver
release codebase, tentatively scheduled to be released in May, although the
release date page is still totally blank on the wiki there.
I would not expect an officially 'supported' driver to be available yet. I do
expect them to be working on it and I would expect the officially supported
driver to be available when the X version is officially released. There is no
reasonable excuse for not getting it done on time when the release cycle is this
long. I would really appreciate a beta program to have a partially working
driver available earlier than that.
Has the ABI been locked down? Or is rawhide using an 'volatile' ABI?
No, but also no. Until 'released' its considered 'not stable' which is somewhat
less than 'volatile' and is definitely not 'locked down'.. which apparently
scares nVidia into not taking (any public) action on it yet. But somehow Adam
Jackson, et. al. working on X both downstream and upstream, have quite a few
drivers including 3d for intel chipsets working pretty nicely.. with that
'volatile' codebase.
<rant>
I'm pretty sure that fear over support backlash is the real issue with nVidia
getting a driver out the door, not the ability to work with the volatile code...
of course thats nothing but speculation. You can see from the official response
in that very thread you linked that 'support' is a key term, and its the same
for every response I've seen on unreleased X builds over the last 5 years. They
have had a beta windows driver program for a long time but still have not taken
steps to get one going on the linux side... where they would need to have even
less support response because the community helps itself. </rant>
If the later is true, should xorg-1.5 be dropped given the near BETA
status of f9? When does Fedora development require a stable ABI for
inclusion?
I think Kevin Kofler answered this one spot on; I'm pretty certain the X version
in F9 won't be changing to accommodate slow response of proprietary driver
developers (to be fair, its probably slow response of their management).
[1] http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.4
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