Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 6 December 2016 at 03:16, Edward O'Callaghan >> <funfunc...@folklore1984.net> wrote: >>> This patch is to potentially remove ourself from the maintaince >>> burden of the ilo driver that appears to now be essentially >>> unmaintained? >>> >>> I am not sure of our policy here or if there are too many >>> users so this patch is really only to gauge a response of >>> how folks feel? >>> >> Surely you want to CC the core/sole developer of the driver when >> considering its removal. >> Maybe mailman was "nice" and hid his email in the header ;-) >> >> Either way adding Chia-I Wu to the list. >> >> -Emil >> P.S. Not sure/sold how much of an actual burden the driver is, yet I >> don't make serious gallium infra changes. > > I don't know that there is that much burden. One could argue that > pretty much all drivers for old hw are largely unmaintained. Consider > the r300 or i915 on the gallium side or radeon or r200 or i915 on the > classic mesa side. That said, I don't do that much work in mesa so I > defer to those that do.
I see users on #dri-devel confused by it regularly. The driver does come at a cost, not just to us developers. It should have never landed, and it should be removed.
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