Re: rawhide report: 20070220 changes

[Gilboa Davara <gilboad gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:24 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:22 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 05:51 -0500, buildsys redhat com wrote:
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Updated Packages:
> > 
> > > libdrm-2.3.0-4.fc7
> > > ------------------
> > > * Mon Feb 19 2007 Adam Jackson <ajax redhat com> 2.3.0-4
> > > - Update nouveau patch
> > > - Fix License tag and other rpmlint noise
> > 
> > OT question (that might not be related...)
> > Any idea when the latest DRI drivers (especially, mach64 and nv) will
> > imported into the kernel tree?
> 
> nv already is, though I might be a bit behind.
> 
> If there are significant mach64 changes since the last time Dave Airlie
> pushed stuff upstream, it's news to me, but I admit to not watching
> mach64 development very closely.
> 
> - ajax

Here's the problem.
The current mesa/DRI package (including the FC6 one) includes full DRI
support for the mach64 chipsets.
However, while considered stable [ 1], the kernel driver part of the
equation has yet to be imported into the mainline kernel tree.

- Gilboa
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-November/019363.html