Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 12:01:26 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > On 10 December 2012 11:56, Thierry Reding > > <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've upload a rebranded and cleaned up version of xf86-video-tegra to a > > repository on gitorious[0]. Don't get too excited, since this is really > > just a fork of the modesetting driver with some unnecessary pieces such > > as PCI support removed. > > > > Aaron had some reservations about calling this xf86-video-tegra because > > it will clash with the binary tegra_drv.so provided by NVIDIA. However I > > couldn't come up with anything more creative. Distributions will have to > > deal with this in some way or another anyway and there really isn't a > > way of running both drivers on top of the same kernel currently, so I > > decided not to care. > > You cannot run both drivers on top of the same kernel but the X server > could possibly load and probe both drivers in turn and keep the one > that can work with the current kernel. exactly, don't shift the burden to maintain two name identical drivers for the same hw to the distributions. > Perhaps it could be named xf86-video-tegra-kms or something. or opentegra (to make clear that this driver is not the closed source one). I know this is a bit fanciless but it fits better IMHO. Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
