On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:50:25PM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote: > +1. If anybody needs them, they're in git. > > Sending from a mobile, pardon my terseness. ~ C.
*sigh* Software populism... But seriously. How would such a thing work? Drivers will be thrown out because none of those currently chiming care about doing the extra bit of work needed to maintain at least some highly standard interfaces. It seems that these less popular drivers are gone for good. Because what would one have to do to get them back in? What are the criteria for that? And how will such criteria evolve? Because stating "you don't have features that some cards already implemented 12 years ago" is a pretty shaky path to venture out on. What's next? "because i do not like the people who develop?"* Now that would be very free and open indeed. The way the mesa monolith exists today, also leaves nothing to the imagination. Once a driver is "dropped" there is also no way of maintaining it externally. To further that: an attempt at proposing some rudimentary SDK, which would shift the compatibility burden to the driver developers (to some extent, this SDK will also not be allowed to move as shortsightedly as before -- which in itself does not exclude evolution at all), wasn't exactly hailed positively. Such infrastructure would've made such brash "development" possible. Luc Verhaegen. * Sounds familiar, doesn't it. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev