#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 br...@…):
Replying to [comment:5 willimm]:
> Well, do you want to move it to 6.7? Just a thought.
No. (Or at least, speaking strictly for '''myself''', not Matt, I'd
rather not. Details below.)
> Hey, Nouveau is pretty stable (at least the 2D part of it, they are
still working heavally on the 3d support.)
So is grsecurity. Matt's point -- and I agree with it -- is, we can't
afford to take every one of these kernel patchsets and include them in
LFS. If a user might need to rebuild their kernel partway through BLFS
because they forgot to turn something on (like NFS), or because they need
to add patches (like nouveau), then those facts belong in the BLFS notes
for those packages.
> This is like with XZ-utils,
Which are also not in the book...
> it's marked as a beta yet still very stable and usuable.
But the stability is not the point. See grsecurity, again.
> But you can move it to 6.7 or even 7.0 if you want, I don't really care
about what milestone it is.
The milestone is "whenever it gets included in the upstream kernel", as
Bruce said in #2585.
Once the kernel developers think it's stable enough to put it into the
official kernel, it will be available there (no patches necessary). And
no further changes to LFS will be necessary at that point, either. So why
make them now? ('''Especially''' if we have to host and update the patch
itself when Fedora makes changes; that's insane given the manpower that we
do have.)
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