[PATCH xorg-server] adds nouveau as standard driver for linux systems

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Mar 20 05:02:38 PDT 2011


On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 18:58:12 +0100, Thomas Schneider wrote:

> 2011/3/19 Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>:
> > nv should probably still be added as a fallback on linux.  Also, does
> > this mean the nouveau people will start doing proper ABI management for
> > libdrm_nouveau (i.e. bump SONAME when they break ABI, for a start)?
> >
> The abi only breaks when the distribution uses to old nouveau code.
> Normally the ABI does not break and many distributions already use
> nouveau as default without any problems.

That's not what ABI means.

Cheers,
Julien


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