Hello, On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:13:10 -0400 Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Which goes back to another question raised at XDC - is it time to start > > dropping support for video drivers the way we have for input drivers? > > > > rendition is one of my favorite examples there - it's so old that > > Windows support isn't available for anything newer than Windows 98. > > > > Since Solaris 11 dropped 32-bit CPU support and is going 64-bit only, > > the list of video drivers we'll be shipping shrunk dramatically, based > > on those we expected to see in x64 systems, and is just: > > > > xf86-video-ast xf86-video-mach64 xf86-video-trident > > xf86-video-ati xf86-video-mga xf86-video-vesa > > xf86-video-cirrus xf86-video-nv xf86-video-vmware > > xf86-video-dummy xf86-video-openchrome > > xf86-video-intel xf86-video-r128 > > > > Besides the obvious ones, Cirrus survived mainly for the emulated forms in > > qemu & similar virtualization, Trident because Sun shipped one on board in > > one of our early AMD64 servers (the Sun Fire V20z), Matrox because of the > > number of server/blade systems using service processors such as those from > > Emulex with G200SE & similar graphics. I don't actually have a good reason > > why "nv" survived since we ship the nvidia proprietary driver. > > > > On the sparc side, we just ship ast & ati, since that's all that's supported > > in > > the SPARC server models that Solaris 11 officially supports. > > I think we should simply maintain the drivers we care about. I'll try > to keep -glint going. For other drivers without any sort of > maintainer, I don't think anything really changes from what's going on > now. We ( as in NetBSD ) already keep a bunch of patches to a bunch of drivers namely: - chips. Put back basic ISA/VL support back so it can run on NetBSD/shark. It's also used in some old PowerBooks which some people still find useful ( that's PCI though ) - we keep mach64, r128 and old radeon support going because they were used in lots of Suns and Power Macs - we have feature updates and fixes for almost all SBus and UPA drivers ( yes we run Xorg on almost everything ) - we use wsfb instead of vesa wherever we have a mappable framebuffer have fun Michael _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
