On 30/07/2008, at 10:37 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Glynn Foster wrote:
>> Is having no drivers better than having broken drivers? Agreed that  
>> this
>> is a lofty goal and many SPARC systems will be headless anyway.  
>> Wonder
>> if it's something that we should at least try and push towards the
>> contrib repository?
>
> Hmm, since the drivers are seperate modules, I think it would be  
> easy to make
> SFE spec files for them to be built for the contrib repo, if that's an
> acceptable compromise.   (I certainly think a driver with a chance  
> of working
> is better than no driver and no chance of working, which is why on  
> x86 I ship
> all the Xorg drivers we can build, despite having no hardware to  
> test/support
> many of them, but I'm not the management of the SPARC graphics  
> group, and can't
> represent their point of view here.)

Sounds fine to me.


Glynn

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