Most popular linux distro do not understand the need to have kernel and 
userland in sync and because of this, the distros that actual use it will tend 
to handle both kernel and userland themselves. As the userland cross section is 
rather small now. I recommend that kernel drop it. It’s been an nice run but 
it’s time to move on.


On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarodwil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There was significant work done out-of-tree, and I believe possibly posted, 
> but never accepted, and some work has continued there, I believe, but I've 
> not had the time or energy to work on that code in a few years myself. I'd 
> say just drop it, most people that care about video acceleration just use a 
> graphics chip that can do it for them these days, the few people with 
> crystalhd cards can go out-of-tree.
> 
> Kristina Martšenko wrote:
>> Hi Naren, Jarod, Scott, Manu,
>> 
>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree. I noticed that
>> nobody seems to have worked towards moving crystalhd out of staging in
>> over a year. Are there any plans to clean it up and move it out soon?
>> Because otherwise we're going to have to delete the driver, as we don't
>> want staging to become a permanent place for unfinished code.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Kristina
> 
> -- 
> Jarod Wilson
> 

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