On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: > For me personally, I don't seem much advantage in moving the drivers > into the xserver. The number of ABI breaks is minimal (usually 1 per > xserver) and those can usually be fixed within a day or so of the > breakage. I don't rebuild the xserver nearly as often as I rebuild > the ddx so it would mean more work to keep up with the xserver changes > on a regular basis. For unmaintained drivers, this might be an > advantage, but at this point the unmaintained drivers are just about > all for hardware >10 years old, so I'm not sure how important it is to > continue to pretend we still support them.
Unmaintained drivers would be left out of tree. Ideally, we would just bring in the 5 or so video drivers that are used and maintained and the handful of input drivers that are still used. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
