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Date:      Sat, 16 May 2009 13:04:13 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Romain =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tarti=E8re?= <romain@blogreen.org>
Cc:        x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How to stay up-to-date with Nouveau?
Message-ID:  <1242497053.5638.70.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090516173246.GA76116@blogreen.org>
References:  <20090516173246.GA76116@blogreen.org>

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On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 19:32 +0200, Romain Tartière wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am happily using Nouveau from a while now and have always updated my
> ports according to the following scheme:
>   1. Update the system "as usual";
>   2. Update and install drm from git;
>   3. Update and install xf86-video-nouveau from git.
> 
> I have been doing this since I have patched my src tree (I continued to
> update my system using subversion so the patches are still merged in
> it).
> 
> 
> However, I can see ports update for xf86-video-nouveau so I am wondering
> if I could just continue to use drm and xf86-video-nouveau from the
> ports instead of the ones in git? I think that patches in the system are
> still required, are they?

You still need my kernel patch until it eventually gets committed.  The
current libdrm and xf86-video-nouveau ports should be fine now though.

robert.

> 
> Thank you!
> Romain

-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD

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