[Nouveau] Kernel module indispensable?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> PS: I see that the avivo guys already have a Debian package (in
>> experimental), whereas that is still missing for the nouveau driver.
>> 
> Probably because the nouveau drivers require a (moving) git snapshot
> of drm in order to work, which potentially breaks all sorts of
> non-nouveau stuff (and you can't really restrict it to just nouveau
> users).

Of course, there could be a "new-drm" Debian package as well, installed with
module-assistant.

> I'm currently working on making some nightly snapshot Ubuntu packages
> using Launchpad's new PPA infrastructure.  If there's enough demand I
> could also build debian packages from the same source.

That would be helpful, yes,


        Stefan