[Nouveau] When will nouveau kernel tree be merged into master

[Eric Valette]

Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:31:43 +0200
> Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Eric Valette<Eric.Valette at free.fr> wrote:
>>> Maarten Maathuis wrote:
>>>> There were no plans (and there are still no plans) to merge nouveau,
>>>> simply because the code is still too untested and interfaces are still
>>>> changing.
>>>>
>>> And it will continue as long as it is difficult to compile it from
>>> source and it is not provided by distribution. So you are just hidding
>>> problem not solving them. There is a "staging" tree for unpolished
>>> drivers already in the kernel. The more people read the code and use,
>>> the more it will stabilize rapidly.
> 
> Stabilization includes the developers being happy with the API first.
> This is not true yet. Testing is essential only after that. To me
> it seems there is a nice user base already, generating more bug reports
> than there is developer power to solve.
> 

kde4 kwin not running using openGL as composing type is maybe my
favorite bug!

Then comes messa git nouveau being out of sync with the rest of nouveau code

-- eric