-[ Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:21:10PM -0700, Matt Turner ]---- > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > X11, Mesa and Firefox were made to works by Zhang Le and others some > > years ago on their overlay. What caused the regression ? > > Frankly, hacky work and never getting the patches upstream.
When a new arch is out you want it to work as fast as possible and so it's understandable that someone would follow shortest path to fix. Once the dust settle some of the patches are reported (IIRC the patches for siliconmotion drivers and the fix for X11 16bpp reached upstream, and certainly many others too), and some others are not deemed good enough or require a lot of work or a different approach, and the original hacker may not feel compelled to spend more time on the issue since its original concern was not to make project X or Y better but to have a working hardware. Also, some projects does not move as fast as others and the hacker may have moved to another matter when eventually feedback come. All this to say that quick fixing things is very useful to "the community" and Zhang Le for instance certainly made life a lot easier for many lemote early users when he came with a working Gentoo image many years ago. Anyway, I perfectly understand why, for instance, mozilla would not apply a hacky patch specific to some variant of mips in their source tree ; I also understand that, with time, unmaintained non glamorous patches can get stripped out of a distro, but that's nonetheless a regression. Again, If you need some manpower from a gentoo on mips newby, feel free to ask. Kindly, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
