On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:49 PM, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah. I build everything that is part of the official release, for the > purposes of testing the for addition to the book. Everything checks out > so far except for 5 video driver packages previously mentioned. > > Vermilion I'm pretty sure we can live without. Is the i80578 even a > released chip? Couldn't find much info on it, but it seems it is > targeted at embedded devices, which is probably outside the scope of BLFS.
Vermillion hasn't seen a commit in nearly 2 years (while the server ABI has definitely changed), so I think it's safe to say it's dead. > I'm not sure about supporting Voodoo 1/2 cards provided by glide, but it > does not build ATM. Is that xf86-video-voodoo isn't building, or glide isn't building? > I remember the price tag on the old SGI visual workstations, while I > kinda doubt it, I honestly don't know if impact is going to be an issue > if we drop it. > > From what little I could gather, wsfb is BSD only....I think. Don't know much about these guys, but really if it's xorg isn't maintaining it, then there's probably not enough interest left in the world for these devices. FWIW, fedora ships neither of these drivers, and they employ some of the lead X developers. > And finally, I've personally never heard of XGI except in the xorg > tree. Seems it is a video chipset targeted for lower end, say server > video baords, docking stations, etc. I think it was something from IBM, and they had one of the X developers put together a driver, but the hardware has already been scrapped (I think). -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
