[Nouveau] Introduction and discussion - Nouveau for Ubuntu Lucid

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 21:33 -0600, Steve Conklin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I've been following the list for a short while and scanned the archive.
> Apologies for missing any answers that were in the archive.
> 
>   I'm the Ubuntu kernel team member focusing on graphics during the Ubuntu
> Lucid Lynx (10.4) cycle. At the Ubuntu developer summit last week, we made
> the decision to include Nouveau in the Lucid kernel.  I'd like to open a few
> topics for discussion with the Nouveau community:

Hi.  I (mostly) maintain the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau &
nouveau-kernel-source packages in Ubuntu & the xorg-edgers PPA.
I've obviously missed this session from UDS, but I also haven't noticed
anything about this on the ubuntu-x mailing list either.

What is the goal (and perceived advantages) of including the nouveau drm
with Lucid's kernel?  Is it to replace nv with nouveau as the default
DDX for nvidia chips?

The current situation, with a dkms-using nouveau-kernel-source[1]
package building nouveau.ko (and drm.ko & friends) has been useful in
the past, where the drm's ABI has changed and so updates to the DDX have
required lock-step drm updates as well.  This would be much more effort
if it required a full kernel update.  I'm not aware of any push for
further ABI changes, but I'm also not aware of any guarantee about ABI
stability, at least until the drm hits staging.

[1] Packaging in a bzr tree at
lp:~raof/nouveau/xorg-edgers-kernel-source
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