On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:46:33PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 01:42:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Alan Hourihane just announced a new driver only cvs module, it still > > needs the driver SDK which is part of the main tree. > > > > Do you think that it would make sense to have the 4.3.0 X package > > produce a new xfree86-sdk binary package which a driver replacement > > package could then build-depend upon ? It would contain the result of a > > make install.sdk. > > Is this functionality in 4.3 itself?
Apparently. Alan told me no distributor ships it yet though. I am currently testing how things work from a plain upstream 4.3.0 tarball and will inform you on the result of this. That said, the i830 driver is broken for the SDK right now, but i guess a patch could solve that nextly. I can't yet build the debian package, as i lack disk space for it right now. > I don't want to make this change for a .0-1 release - far too major IMO. Huh ? It is just a damn additional binary package that will make no difference if nobody uses it, and your packages are unofficial anyway, so what is the problem. This would enable us to produce a driver package (which would need to divert the official drivers or something such) from the nigthly driver snapshots that upstream is putting in place, which would be a great thing for our users, as it would fill the need of users with hardware not yet supported in the last major release. Friendly, Sven Luther
