On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Where's the SGI O2's video driver? It's still not hosted on FDO. I thought that was one reason you were getting commit access. Matt _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
