On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:15 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > Is there a single technical reason why shipping both is a problem?
For the same reason the kernel avoids shipping multiple drivers for the same hardware -- we want a unique PCI-ID -> driver mapping so that all X.org downstream users share the same code base for their hardware. Forking driver development is a great way to explore new ideas and demonstrate new technologies, but in the long-term, we really want the best ideas to be integrated into a single driver for each device. Fortunately, X.org doesn't control what anyone uses on their own machines, so people remain free to ignore what X.org ships and replace any or all of it with other software. -keith
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