On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/12/13 03:16 AM, Connor Behan wrote: >> >> If you mean included with an Xorg katamari, there is probably no point. >> Most distros package individual components. As for why some drivers like >> these need to be downloaded from unofficial git repos while other >> drivers that are equally old have official git repos on freedesktop.org? >> I don't know why that is. > > > The repos on freedesktop.org are the drivers that either originated from > X.Org (most originally from XFree86 before the fork) or which the authors > have asked us to host in our repos for collective development, allowing > X.Org developers to update the drivers when they change the server API. > > I'd actually never heard of this xf86-video-sis671 before this thread, > so presumably the author likes keeping it separate, hidden, and fully > their responsibility to keep working. >
What happened went something like, Xorg SiS driver maintained by Thomas, then he had a premium version that he used to sell, when he gave up I think he might he code dropped the premium one but not in our tree or something. Then SiS forked an old version of the X.org one for the 671, released a megapatch containing pieces of support for the chip and maybe pieces of the premium codebase, I spent a day once trying to create a sensible set of patches to get from a to b, and put them in git. I failed. I see you can get these motherboards on ebay for $60. Ideally someone would buy one, take our current sis driver, and make some rational patches to add hw support for the new chips. Dave. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
