Re: NVIDIA Tegra DDX

[Marc Dietrich <marvin24-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>]

Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 12:01:26 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
> On 10 December 2012 11:56, Thierry Reding
> 
> <thierry.reding-RM9K5IK7kjKj5M59NBduVrNAH6kLmebB@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've upload a rebranded and cleaned up version of xf86-video-tegra to a
> > repository on gitorious[0]. Don't get too excited, since this is really
> > just a fork of the modesetting driver with some unnecessary pieces such
> > as PCI support removed.
> > 
> > Aaron had some reservations about calling this xf86-video-tegra because
> > it will clash with the binary tegra_drv.so provided by NVIDIA. However I
> > couldn't come up with anything more creative. Distributions will have to
> > deal with this in some way or another anyway and there really isn't a
> > way of running both drivers on top of the same kernel currently, so I
> > decided not to care.
> 
> You cannot run both drivers on top of the same kernel but the X server
> could possibly load and probe both drivers in turn and keep the one
> that can work with the current kernel.

exactly, don't shift the burden to maintain two name identical drivers for the 
same hw to the distributions.

> Perhaps it could be named xf86-video-tegra-kms or something.

or opentegra (to make clear that this driver is not the closed source one). I 
know this is a bit fanciless but it fits better IMHO.

Marc