Greetings, Here's an update on the current status and on future plans of the GEODE X.ORG driver:
With the recent release of version 2.11.0 of the X.org driver for the Geode GX2/LX, a whole cycle was wrapped up for many of the developers involved: * Jordan Crouse was among the unlucky ones who recently lost their job at AMD. The same layoff also affected Coreboot developer Marc Jones and many other Geode specialists. * Several members of the OLPC project are also moving on, now that most Linux kernel and X.org patches have been merged upstream. * People like myself who were working in the thin client industry on Geode-based products are also moving on. As such, remaining bugs and our milestone goal to merge back support for older GX1 Geodes might never be taken care of. From this perspective, we welcome active participation of new developers with access to a wide variety of Geode hardware (GX1/SC/GX2/LX) to contribute and, eventually, take over upstream maintenance of xf86-video-geode. Meanwhile, Jordan, myself and several former OLPC developers still have access to an XO-1 each and, in my case, to an SC2000-based product and a couple of different LX800-based products to develop the driver. However, given none of us work for a player in the Geode industry anymore, the incentive to produce new code is obviously low. Thus, it really is up to the community to contribute as much as it can, in terms of patches to fix existing bugs and to merge back GX1/SC support into the driver. For now, we expect these contributions to take the form of patches against the GIT repository, sent to this mailing list as Singed-Off attachments. Once we're satisfied with the quality of the patches we receive, we might selectively grant commit rights to selected developers. Best Regards, Martin-Éric _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
