On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 20:46 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > 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? > > I wasn't going to chime in with another "me too", but just make it > clear that there's a pretty strong concensus, here we go: yes please! > And I've done a good deal of work in the DRI interface area and the > maintenence burden is real, no matter what the back seat drivers say.
I will though: Me too! Keith _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
