On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 12:39 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote: > > The tslib question is really what do we do with kdrive. Xfake seems > > pretty useless given Xvfb, and the only win for Xfbdev over Xorg+fbdev > > is marginally smaller footprint. On the other hand Xephyr is a hugely > > important tool, but tslib support in Xephyr doesn't make a lot of > > sense. Personally I'd like to see the first two removed and tslib > > support dropped. > > > By the "first two" you mean Xfake and Xfbdev, leaving tslib-less > Xephyr around. Is that correct ?
Correct. I seem to have first tried to nuke Xfbdev in 2010, to some protest: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-February/005522.html Then Jeremy tried again in 2012 and some additional resistance was found: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-March/030068.html I think what's needed there is to ensure fbdev_drv.so works as well as Xfbdev in terms of bugs etc., and then to compare runtime footprint and performance. Also in 2010 I tried to remove tslib, and there was some concern about evdev being equivalent for device support: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-July/011001.html It does seem to be still used by _somebody_, as there are modestly active forks on github: https://github.com/kergoth/tslib Again, probably the burden here would be demonstrating that evdev (or libinput) can do the job just as well. - ajax _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
