> > So? My sister still uses a P120, and is happy with it. Why should she be > > forced to upgrade?
I think that is a bit petty really, please try and keep this discussion some way in the bounds of logic, at some point you have to throw away older systems, X works on these systems now, we want to build a new version of X that works on top of newer cards using features of these cards, the older systems can still use X as they do now however development will slow on XAA drivers and newer applications will use newer features stopping them from working on the older systems... Just because we develop a new graphics sub-system, it doesn't mean you have to run it, I belive there is space (if we merge fbdev functionality into the drm) to build an XAA Xserver on top of it using the drm to do the mode setting card resetting, pci access and any locking, it just won't run 3D apps, it can still run X/GNOME etc.. Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
