On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:47:19AM -0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > Twas brillig at 09:26:19 29.03.2011 UTC-07 when [email protected] did gyre > and gimble: > > AP> NAK. This code is not NVIDIA-specific just because only the NVIDIA > AP> driver currently uses it. > > I did not claim it. I just said it's unused.
And I'm disagreeing about it being unused. I'm actually surprised that none of the other drivers use it since workstation overlays are still heavily used. > AP> We can move it into the driver if you really think it's necessary, > AP> but from a software design standpoint it's the wrong thing to do. > > Keeping unused code in mi is wrong from software engineering standpoint > as well. I disagree. mi is a toolkit of machine-independent driver support routines. While I understand that X needs to advance forward and gain features, I don't think it should turn its back on its loyal professional workstation heritage either. NVIDIA is committed to supporting both the forward advancement of the window system and traditional X features like overlays. It is disappointing if no other driver shares both those commitments. The mi overlay code is not hardware-specific, and architecturally makes the most sense in the X server's mi layer. You can sign me up as the maintainer if you think it's a maintenance burden. -- Aaron _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
