On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:01:32AM -0400, Rick Scott wrote: > Could we not work out a way to peacefully co-exist with a single CVS tree?? As > it stands, we need the proper kernel tree, the proper dri tree, the proper > XFree86 tree, the proper linuxvideo tree, and probably a couple that I have
Linuxvideo cvs is erratic, which is why volodya (IIRC) started the sourceforge branch. It's built off 4.1.0. gatos.sf.net has the latest code from linuxvideo cvs, as well as the kernel module we're working on. > missed, since things don't seem to work smoothly, to get a working driver for > an ATI rage 128 card! Oh ya, sf.gatos.something if you want to try capture... > None of the trees seems to be in sync with one another. If you improve > something in one of the trees, syncing with the others is somewhat of a > nightmare.... Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but the current situation > seems to be somewhat less than optimal to me. If the XFree86 people don't trust > the gatos people enough for commits to the ati part of the tree, and the gatos > people don't trust the XFree86 people enough to sync the trees, not to mention The code wasn't ready for 4.1.0, so it didn't get rolled in. Nothing strange about it. The XFree people don't touch the parts of the video card we're working with, generally, or the stuff that DRI uses. DRI/video has more of an overlap, but the DMA stuff is in alpha right now. As in it locks my machine regularly :) > the dri, drm, and all the other stuff, how the hell are we going to come out > with a kick-ass driver that takes advantage of all the hardware has to offer?? > I am rather new to this field, trying to play by the rules, but I'm having a > hard time trying to figure out all the fragmentation of effort. The plan is to get it integrated in XFree eventually, but not before it's stable. R C -- They said it was *daft* to build a space station in a swamp, but I showed them! It sank unto the swamp. So I built a second space station. That sank into the swamp too. My third space station sank into the swamp. So I built a fourth one. That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the swamp. But the fifth one... stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
