On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:23:03 +0000 (GMT), James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I know none of the significant contributors on either fbdev > > or DRM are being paid to work on the project. > > So I have noticed. There is much to do but no real man power. We are > talking about this merging but at our rate it will take 5 years to happen. > We don't have the man power to do this. So I'm not going to bother > merging. Its all pipe dreams here. > >
with that attitude it's never gonna happen. I work almost exclusively on X, but once we get at least one sample driver done (probably radeon, I would be more than happy to devote my limited development resources to the new drm/fb super driver. Right now the kernel FB drivers have no benefit for me so I don't use/develop them. The drm just works and I'm more interested in the crtc/modes/outputs handling than the command processor control stuff. I think a lot of X developers (and porobably IHVs) will get on board when this happens. X is undermanned as well, but we've managed to do a pretty good job of supported a lot of features on a fair number of cards. Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
