On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:06:27PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: >Hi Guys, > >I noticed this in the XFree86 4.3.0 release notes: > >> We have plans to make the configuration file optional in a future >> release. The XFree86 server is close to being able to >> automatically determine a complete base configuration for most >> popular hardware configurations. > >How does this affect installable modules such as our drivers (soon to be >released) that can support multiple chipsets that are already supported >by existing driver modules? The same would go for NVIDIA, ATI and Matrox >binary only drivers - how would they be handled?
What we're doing here will still handle 3rd party modules. At a minimum there will be an editable mapping between hardware and driver modules. That mapping won't be hard-coded into the XFree86 server (although some generic fallback might). In your case, where one driver handles everything, the mapping would be trivial. In the 4.x time frame, the XF86Config file won't disappear (just not be required), and it (or some equivalent) will always be needed to store configuration preference information. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
