Le 15/09/2011 17:45, Jesse Barnes a écrit :
At XDC this week we discussed merging drivers back into the server tree. One thing I found frustrating about the discussion was that we didn't have a whiteboard nor a list of the pros& cons of such a change. So I'd like to capture that here (from memory) to let us continue the discussion about whether it's worth it or not.
With my (dusty) Gentoo hat on, our needs as a source distro are quite simple:
if we could influence any decision, we'd like to be able to build the server and drivers separately. In other words, a user installing (and therefor *building*) a new driver shouldn't have to rebuild the server and all the driver s/he has already installed.
That being said, a server with merged drivers would still be an order of magnitude faster to build than the old XFree86 monolith (no docs, no libs, no static swrast, etc).
Speaking of mesa, the drivers are all already merged and none of our users have ever complained about that...
If those who actually work on the code base feel merging things would help them rock Xorg even further, I guess I'll do my best to support them in Gentoo.
Cheers, Rémi _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
