[ubuntu-x] -nouveau now set as the default driver for Nvidia hardware

[Jerone Young]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 12:25 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:58:45AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > The last I remember of this, implementing KMS required symbols
> > > explicitly exported as GPL, making it impossible for nvidia to implement
> > > KMS in the closed driver.
> > 
> > I should note symbols exported explicitly with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() do
> > not require your code to be GPL but just GPL-compatible.
> 
> I seem to recall a pretty detailed interview of the nvidia guys where
> they addressed this, on slashdot or phoronix or somewhere.  IIRC there
> was a non-trivial development effort involved that was driving
> prioritization of this for them.

You recall correctly (page 3):

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_qa_linux&num=1


> 
> Bryce
>