On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:38:19AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Tiago Vignatti wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:21:33AM +1000, ext Peter Hutterer wrote: > >> I'm looking at having to fix a number of unmaintained drivers for ABI 12 > >> and > >> because it's hopefully the last time I'll worry about multi-server support > >> for those drivers, I decided to see how much work it is to merge a driver. > >> > >> Current tree is on branch driver-merge in my xserver repo. > >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/xserver/log/?h=driver-merge > >> Still rebasing where needed, but it's a start. > >> > >> My main grief at this point is the massive AM_CPPFLAGS define which I'd > >> like > >> to see somewhere more central. In the current drivers, we can just use the > >> sdk directory, but these headers are all over the server's source tree. > >> > >> Any comments appreciated. > > > > Peter, can you please brief the motivation for merging specifically input > > void > > driver? I mean, we can start a server without input drivers, so why we would > > care about a void one? > > You could watch the video of the discussion at XDS that you slept through > where we discussed this. 8-) > > The short summary is: xf86-input-void & xf86-video-dummy *ONLY* change > when the X server ABI changes - they never have to support new models of > the "null" hardware, so can both serve as examples of driver updates to > new ABI's, and will never need to be separately backported to an older > server by a LTS/enterprise distro that needs to support new hardware > with their existing stable server branch.
I do not see the point still. This will catch no ABI issues at all as it uses nothing. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
