Hi, 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. > > 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. Well, there might be some merit in only having a single driver for each piece of hardware (though I'm not entirely convinced of that) -- but on what grounds do you decide which one gets the preference? Dropping radeonhd looks like a totally arbitrary decision to me. After all, radeonhd has been added before radeon gained newer chipset support, and I really fail to see why radeon-now-with-r500+ should be treated as the official driver, and radeonhd as some alien... -antrik- _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
