post-352 drivers

[Luca Boccassi]

On 1 February 2016 at 19:45, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just uploaded 355.11-1 to experimental to get the new packages through
> NEW.

Awesome, thanks!

> I've merged the changes into 358, but haven't tested it at all.

Thanks for doing the merges, I will give it a run tonight and report back.

> Especially regarding the modeset module I'm not yet convinced of the
> right way handling this. What are the dependencies regarding that module?

Don't have the machine here right now, but if I remember correctly
it's a dependency of the main nvidia kernel module, and it's available
on all supported architectures. From what I read around, it doesn't
provide much functionality right now, but in time that's where the
kernel modesetting will be implemented.

> Regarding conftest.sh: given the new upstream build system, can we just
> switch to using upstream's conftest.sh instead of patching around it and
> brewing our own conftest.h? Although it does not work out of the box ...
> probably due to the path layout with the -common headers packages. But
> maybe we can just patch that?

It would be great if we could, as it would make maintenance so much
easier. I've seen you already committed some changes to svn/355,
that's great, I'll give it a spin as well tonight or tomorrow.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi