On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > So.. any chance of GATOS getting into XFree86? ;o)
> This question gets asked very often. The answer is that part of GATOS is > already there. The part that isn't is TV-in and hardware Xv for mach64 > cards. And it was submitted but it takes quite a while to get in. The > major reason for this is that ATI driver maintainer and me have different > priorities: > My impression is that ATI driver maintainer (Marc please correct me) is > primarily interested in > * clean and working code that is easy to maintain > which, IMO, is a worthy goal. > My priorities are: > * robust (non-crashing) driver that supports new features > * experimentation with new approaches to programming and new features > These two do imply "clean and easy to maintain" but in a significantly > different way. > Also both of us are quite short on spare time. That, pretty well, sums it up. And more of GATOS will be merged shortly. I know I promised earlier to get the merge done before 4.3, but that just didn't happen, sorry. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
