On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:51:45AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > 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.
Afaict, there still is no need to have a 1-1 mapping. > 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. This still does not make such a covert action acceptable. Luc Verhaegen. SUSE X Driver Developer. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
