[ubuntu-x] Status of kernel X drivers

[Eric Anholt]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:20:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:40 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> [...]
> > From apw's Kernel Summary, about why we are going with 2.6.32:
> > 
> >   The primary decision for the kernel team at UDS is to choose the base
> >   kernel version for the release.  For Lucid this will be 2.6.32.  This
> >   version has just released providing the maximum stabalisation time, it
> >   also is expected to be the kernel of choice for long term releases
> >   from other distributions.[1]
> > 
> > If other distros are pulling the 2.6.33 drm on top of their 2.6.32 for
> > their long term releases as sounds like is the case[2], then this would
> > be a fairly significant divergence on our part for no real gain.
> [...]
> > 2: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/kernel/F-12/drm-upgrayedd.patch?view=log
> 
> Fedora has been backporting drm (and nouveau) for a long time but it's
> not so clear what means for RHEL.
> 
> I think this is something we will also consider doing in Debian.  A year
> from now I expect nv to be dead and radeon UMS to be removed upstream,
> making it impractical to backport new hardware support.  Given that, the
> maintenance burden for 2.6.33 drm should be lower.  But this is really
> outside my area of expertise and certainly not my decision to make.
> 
> We should probably also consider what this means for drm on the
> 2.6.32-stable branch.  Should the drm developers still send patches
> there as well, where applicable?  If all the distributions using 2.6.32
> use the backported drm, should we ask Greg K-H to pull that?

Not sure that gregkh would go along with it, but agreed on the other
points, and maybe if distro folks ask for a backport pull instead of
upstream developers we'll have a better chance of success.

The Intel guys should continue sending patches for the current stable
branch.  I've seen a bunch of non-Intel folks requesting pulls of
additional drm/i915 patches to stable branches, so hopefully that can
cover 2.6.32 caretaking once our process moves on to the next stable
kernel.
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