Re: [git pull] drm request 3

From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 18:50:39 EST


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Am 2010-03-05 22:51 schrieb tytso@xxxxxxx:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:38:46AM -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>> If distros want to run weird experiments on their users, let them!
>> Sure, sometimes bad things happen, but sometimes good things happen
>> too. ConsoleKit, DeviceKit, HAL, NetworkManager, KMS, yaird, dracut,
>> Plymouth, the list goes on and on.
>
> So what distro would you recommend for people who want to do kernel
> development, do kernel testing, and do kernel bisects to help us find
> bugs?
>
> Are you basically saying, "Kernel people shouldn't use Fedora"? So
> what should we use instead?

It's been "Kernel people shouldn't use Nvidia" ever since I started
tinkering with device drivers for Linux. Of course there's hope that
nouveau will one day change that, but we're obviously not quite there yet.

Jm2c
Tilman

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