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.