[Openchrome-devel] openchrome in xorg ?

Thomas Hellström thomas
Fri Aug 15 09:15:53 PDT 2008


Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
>> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>>> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Should we try to strip out all old Xorg version support from the 
>>>>>> driver at this point and declare that support obsolete?
>>>>>>
>>>> What do you define as old ? Anything older than xorg server 1.3 ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I guessed that with 'old' Thomas meant 'monolithic Xorg', 6.8.* and
>>>  before.  No?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Benno
>>>
>> Yup, I meant any code that doesn't apply to current X.org. I haven't
>> looked at this in detail for a while, but some time ago the code was
>> full of various defines that made implemenatation of new features
>> problematic.
>>
>> /Thomas
>>
> Here's a patch to remove support for the old XV ABI. The new XV ABI was
> introduced with xorg 7.1. Is this ok to apply ?
> Anything else to hunt down ?
>
> Regards,
> Xavier
>
Hi!
Looks OK to me!

Other things to hunt down is (from configure.ac, may have been ripped 
out already).
USE_FB
X_USE_LINEARFB
X_USE_REGION_NULL
X_HAVE_XAAGETROP
X_NEED_I2CSTART
VIA_HAVE_EXA always true,
EXA_VERSION_MAJOR always >= 2

Should we try to set up a freedesktop git repo??

/Thomas









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