On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:53:34AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I think it's time to start dealing with driver deprecation on a more > active level. I'm not sure how far off server 1.5 is, but I'd like to be > well ahead of it in dealing with the changes it brings. It should be > obvious now that almost all the input drivers are going away, and a few of > the video drivers as well. My feeling is that we should give people a > chance to try and save these drivers though, so we should work up a mail to > debian-devel-announce detailing why these drivers will be going away, and > what people can do about it. > > This week I'll come up with a list of the drivers that haven't been > ported to the new input and pci-rework frameworks and also compose a draft > of the mail. I'll send it here for comments so we can make sure it's well > written before it's sent. If you guys have any thoughts on the matter, or > suggestions for writing the mail, please let me know. > > - David Nusinow
As the listed x.org tseng driver maintainer, i can tell you that -tseng will be ported soon. It might even gain DDC in the process too. The bulk of the work is getting a server with libpciaccess built. I'm sure that most other drivers, except for a few, can be trivially ported as well. The biggest pains with libpciaccess were/are atimisc and IGP devices. The easiest ones will be the drivers for antique pci devices. Luc Verhaegen. SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
