On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:05 -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Brian Paul <bri...@vmware.com> wrote: > > Guillem Jover wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> [ CCing Daniel Borca who used to work on 3dfx support in Mesa and > >> libglide, not sure though if he is around or interested anymore. ] > >> > >> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:25:02 -0700, Brian Paul wrote: > >>> 3. I'm tempted to remove some old Mesa drivers such as glide, tdfx, > >>> allegro, ggi, dri/mga, dri/mach64. Maybe more. Any objections? > >> > >> Could the drivers for actual hardware (namely glide, tdfx, dri/mga > >> and dri/mach64) be exempted from removal? I at least still have cards > >> for those, not sure though how many users might be out there, but > >> whenever libglide has broken in Debian, I tend to receive bug reports, > >> so I'd assume there's still some. And it always saddens me a bit when > >> hardware support gets dropped in projects. > > > > I have/had no idea if the tdfx, glide, mga or mach64 drivers function > > anymore. If someone is actively using or testing the drivers I guess > > we could keep them, but I'd rather not otherwise. > > One of my co-workers, bless his soul, is digging out a PCI Voodoo3 for > my collection, so I can maintain tdfx. I don't know about glide. > > I am *not* testing mga; I don't have the right motherboard for it, sorry.
mga continues to work surprisingly well, given it's age. I have a few G450 and an G550 here... robert. > mach64's DRM code was getting a once-over by somebody on either > dri-devel or LKML; maybe we could wait and see if somebody cares. > > ~ C. > -- Robert Noland <rnol...@2hip.net> 2Hip Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
