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.