Re: [git pull] drm

Pekka Enberg
2009-12-10T19:13:40Z

Hi Linus,

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
>> You assume that Red Hat has full control over the project, which i
>> don't think is the case. The reason it isn't in staging yet (as far as
>> i know) is because of some questions over the copyright of some
>> (essential) microcode. Either the question needs to be answered, or it
>> has to be reverse engineered to the point that it's possible to
>> generate it.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> I think people are just making up excuses, as evidenced by the fact that
> you're quoting a different excuse than I've heard before.

AFAICT, the "problem" here is that the guys running the nouveau
project are simply not interested in merging the damn thing. I guess
at some point one of us just needs to grab the code and send it to
Greg for inclusion in -staging?

Pekka