#2584: Linux 2.6.32.8 and Nouveau
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Reporter: willimm | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.6
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid
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Comment(by matt...@…):
William,
Speaking mainly for myself, but I'm sure the following applies to the
other editors too, but I don't believe that we have either the skills or
the time required to handle supporting backported patches, especially
anything as relatively new as the Nouveau driver.
In addition, I also don't want us to set a precedent here whereby other
users believe that they can ask and expect to have their staging/unstable
/out-of-tree patch of choice added and supported by the book.
If you want to use the Nouveau driver, then all credit to you for doing so
and getting all the bits lined up so that they work together. As we like
to say, "Your distro, your rules.". LFS will obviously gain Nouveau
support when it gets added to mainline kernel releases, which will be when
upstream believe it is stable enough to do so. This is like any other
upstream package; we do not backport features from their development code
bases, no matter how useful they may be; we simply do not have the
capacity to support them.
Regards,
Matt.
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