[Mesa-dev] Please dont remove support for working hardware

[hgkldjgfl at t-online.de]

I have read on 
https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-2017-Cleanup-Discussion
<https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-2017-Cleanup-Discussion> 
that there is a discussion about removing still working hardware. Please 
fix the problems instead.
Please, dont remove support for it. I have spend in the last year over 100 
hours of testing such hardware and reporting anonymously(privacy is 
important for me) bugs.
I still like to use such hardware when no new hardware is required for a 
special use case. Also free software is always been talked about that it 
does not drop support for working hardware. Many linux developers laugh at 
the microsoft windows world when a new windows is been released and then 
there are no drivers for it. Then the general sentense of many people deep 
inside the linux community is "thats what happen when you use closed source 
software, take linux to fix this".
Also its bad for nature to drop support of working hardware. Throw-away 
living is terrible for the nature!
For example i have build for a development-usecase a modern amd-ryzen setup 
to a full-hd screen(no more space on desk). I put a GPU into this setup 
that include all required functionality: PCIe card with NV40 chip. The 
developer working on this hardware is now forced to not use gnome or 
kde-plasma because all bugs have been reported to for example imirkin and 
now waiting since one year for a bugfix. imirkin have bought a nv40 card 
for the PCI slot to fix those nv40 bugs. I am testing at least once a month 
a recent linux live image to see if the reported problems are fixed in the 
latest code.
I also use machines for dedicated usage with much older hardware for using 
existing hardware that fullfills this usecase. For example a video-screen 
on a wall that should run 24/7 on a small vga screen -> you can use 
perfectly fine anything at radeon r200 series and defenetly everything at 
nouveau nv30 series.
 
Please dont drop support for working hardware. Please fix the bugs instead 
of breaking completely the supprot for the hardware. I would still like to 
use the hardware and be able to say "linux is great, it does not force you 
to throw away fully working hardware".


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