From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Dietrich Subject: Re: NVIDIA Tegra DDX Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:40:21 +0100 Message-ID: <2016185.oZ1QsIlQyO@fb07-iapwap2> References: <20121210105627.GA7503@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Michal Suchanek Cc: Thierry Reding , xorg-devel-go0+a7rfsptAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org, linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 12:01:26 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > On 10 December 2012 11:56, Thierry Reding > > 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