On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Luc Verhaegen <l...@skynet.be> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:50:25PM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote: >> +1. If anybody needs them, they're in git. >> >> Sending from a mobile, pardon my terseness. ~ C. > > *sigh* Software populism... > > But seriously. How would such a thing work? > > Drivers will be thrown out because none of those currently chiming care > about doing the extra bit of work needed to maintain at least some > highly standard interfaces. > > It seems that these less popular drivers are gone for good. Because what > would one have to do to get them back in? What are the criteria for > that? And how will such criteria evolve? Because stating "you don't have > features that some cards already implemented 12 years ago" is a pretty > shaky path to venture out on. What's next? "because i do not like the > people who develop?"* Now that would be very free and open indeed. > > The way the mesa monolith exists today, also leaves nothing to the > imagination. Once a driver is "dropped" there is also no way of > maintaining it externally. > > To further that: an attempt at proposing some rudimentary SDK, which > would shift the compatibility burden to the driver developers (to some > extent, this SDK will also not be allowed to move as shortsightedly as > before -- which in itself does not exclude evolution at all), wasn't > exactly hailed positively. Such infrastructure would've made such brash > "development" possible.
Ian's list of DRI1 drivers: i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome. I have mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx hardware, but not the time to maintain it, let alone get it into DRI2-land, at this time. If I suddenly get the time to do it, I'll gladly bring them back up to speed, but as it stands, they've been getting cargo-cult interface updates without any testing, and at some point it's actively harmful to keep shipping them without testing, isn't it? -- When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ~ Keynes Corbin Simpson <mostawesomed...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
