On 12/09/08 14:15, Eric Sultan wrote:
> Neal Pollack wrote:
>> ...
>> At a time of pressure to control costs, why is this not common code?  
>> Why are we setting up
>> a sparc branch and an existing x86 branch?  Or are the two groups 
>> working together to
>> merge this support in a common driver (add support for sparc to the 
>> existing x86 driver
>> and place it in a common branch of the source tree)?
>
> We aren't setting up a separate code branch.  The SPARC code will be 
> in the common code base, and
> that base will be modified to support SPARC as well as x86.  During 
> the development cycle, the SPARC
> code is separate, but it will be merged into the existing Xorg code.
>
>  -- Eric
>

excellent, thanks.

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