On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'd like to propose giving the ax to a bunch of old, unmaintained > drivers. I've been doing a bunch of refactoring and reworking of core > Mesa code, and these drivers have been causing me problems for a number > of reasons. > > 1. The hardware is so old that it doesn't support a lot of features that > have been common for 12+ years. > > 2. The drivers are so unmaintained that even hacking in new features > with dummy implementations is painful. > > 3. The drivers are so buggy that many piglit tests hang the GPU. I > tried doing a piglit run on a Rage128 Pro that I have, but I gave up > after having to blacklist 15 tests. > > It also seems that at least some distros (e.g., Fedora) have stopped > shipping non-DRI2 drivers. If nobody is shipping it, nobody is using it. > > My specific proposal is: > > - Remove all DRI1 drivers: i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, > and unichrome. > > - Remove all unmaintained Windows drivers: gldirect, icd. > > - Remove beos. > > - Remove fbdev (this is swrast on raw fbdev). > > Opinions?
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