[Mesa-dev] DEATH to old drivers!

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:14:21AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:50:25PM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> > +1. If anybody needs them, they're in git.
> > 
> > Sending from a mobile, pardon my terseness. ~ C.
> 
> *sigh* Software populism...
> 
> But seriously. How would such a thing work?
> 
> Drivers will be thrown out because none of those currently chiming care 
> about doing the extra bit of work needed to maintain at least some 
> highly standard interfaces.
> 
> It seems that these less popular drivers are gone for good. Because what 
> would one have to do to get them back in? What are the criteria for 
> that? And how will such criteria evolve? Because stating "you don't have 
> features that some cards already implemented 12 years ago" is a pretty 
> shaky path to venture out on. What's next? "because i do not like the 
> people who develop?"* Now that would be very free and open indeed.

Or... "Because they do not fit the interface/abstraction i just 
implemented."

Luc Verhaegen.