[Nouveau] DRM changes

Stephane Marchesin marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr
Tue Mar 10 01:03:32 PDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 23:23, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Questions:
>
> A tree based on what? (linus, drm-next, etc)
>

I would follow drm-next, but I don't think it is very relevant at this
point, since anyway drm-next periodically merges to linus. If there
are reasons to choose one over the other, I'm interested in hearing
them.

> What happens to shared-core?

It will probably meet its creator.

>
> Opinions (assuming this happens):
>
> I'd do a branch for each kernel version (or less if needed), and let
> people who care cherry-pick fixes.
>

Yeah that's what I initially thought, but Pekka said you could also
get an out-of-tree build from a full kernel tree. So that's the two
paths to explore.

Stephane


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