Hi, I am trying to plan the future of the ati driver package in Debian and I'd like some clarification of the short and long term upstream plans.
If xf86-video-ati only contains the radeon driver (and some theatre stuff), is it going to become some xf86-video-radeon at some point? Imagine that r8xx is very different from r6xx and cannot be included in the radeon submodule, would you make a new xf86-video-r7xx, or just add another submodule to ati? To be clear, do we still need submodules? For the Debian packager point of view, I'd rather just drop submodules, rename ati into radeon, make the Debian ati package virtual and depend on radeon+mach64+r128. What sort of version numbers do you expect to use for ati and the new mach64 and r128 ? All of them use 6.8.0 in configure.ac as of today. But according to my Xorg.0.log, the actual ati version is 4.3.0 :) By the way, if r128 is going to be merged back into radeon, it would very nice to make this happen soon (for instance before the next release) so that we don't have to ever package r128 independently. Last but not least, you guys rock. Having so many new features added, new boards supported, and bugs fixed quickly makes distro's people work very easy and nice. Our users are (most of the time :)) very happy thanks to you. Brice _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
