On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:16:49AM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:04:41PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:22PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > On Don, 2002-11-07 at 17:38, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:32:03PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > > > > Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > > >On Don, 2002-11-07 at 16:56, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >>Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>>These no longer get built by default. Any objections against the
> > > > > >>>attached patch?
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>Actually if they're not built, I think we should ditch them from cvs.  
> > > > > >>We're not working on them.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >
> > > > > >In that case I'd vote again for removing unused drivers etc. as well.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm ok with that too, as long as it simplifies rather than complicates the 
> > > > > lives of people who are doing XFree merges.
> > > > 
> > > > I wouldn't like to remove the drivers. They don't cause any import conflicts
> > > > and they're useful to those who want to start a DRI driver for another chipset.
> > > 
> > > They can trivially be added back in that case, and these libraries for
> > > people who want to provide packages off the DRI tree.
> >  
> > Why remove them, if we end up having to put them back ? And for the libraries -
> > they haven't changed since 4.2.0 - so why would people want to put them
> > in packages ?
> 
> For most of the cards, that's a BIG if.  Quite a few of the cards that we're
> packing around drivers for don't even have any 3D acceleration to support.
> The sun*, tseng, tga, i128, cyrix, cirrus, chips, and ark drivers come to
> mind.  The only drivers for which we don't already have 3D support for (in
> the trunk) that we should probably keep around are the i740 (just in case!),
> nv, s3virge, and savage.  If somebody could scare up docs, rendition might
> could be added to the list...

Your forgetting that sun* has the ffb driver. 

If your volunteering to do the merges in future Ian - go ahead and remove
them. :)

Alan.


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