[arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

[Xavier Chantry]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

All development happens in that git tree :
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/
This is then merged to drm-next and then to linus tree.

If you just fetch that, you indeed cannot do an out-of-build tree, you
have to build the whole kernel.
But it's possible to write a Makefile that makes it possible :
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/plain/nouveau/Makefile?h=master-compat

This Makefile allows to only build the relevant drm/nouveau code, and
apparently also to create an archive of it.
I don't see why this should stop being possible, and why it would not
be possible to do the same with other drivers.