On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 01:20 +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote: > That's true, but the conflict goes both way. And the situation isn't > different with ati vs fglrx, is it ? > > Anyway, there is no reason to enable nouveau in the kernel, the > current out-of-tree build is just fine and allows for more frequent > updates. > As long as users still have to install it explicitly, they should be > able to handle this conflict. > But it would indeed be more problematic if we wanted to have it > directly in the kernel package.
The point is that it moved to the staging tree now, where further development will take place. After a while, there won't be an out-of-tree version anymore because all development happens in the official kernel git tree. An example of this is intel: there's several kernel trees around with intel drivers, but no possible way to build intel drm out of tree.
