[Openchrome-devel] [Bug 94473] DRM bootup error on VX900 platform

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473

--- Comment #13 from HuangRan <huangran at iscas.ac.cn> ---
(In reply to Benno Schulenberg from comment #12)
> (In reply to Kevin Brace from comment #5)
> > I must say that James Simmons wrote far clearer code than the original
> > OpenChrome developers.
> 
> Just a note: most of the code comes originally from VIA, from their
> engineers.  It was open-sourced probably somewhere in 2003.  Early in 2004
> the Unichrome project picked it up and fixed many bugs, mainly done by Luc
> Verhaegen and Thomas Hellström.  That commit history was not preserved when
> things moved to openchrome in 2005.  Since then some code was written by
> Ivor Hewitt, Jon Nettleton, Bartosz Kosiorek, and James Simmons.  But to
> blame any of these openchrome developers for the state of the code would
> be... unfair.
> 
> (Just a note, just to put things a bit in perspective.)

Benno, I am be happy to know the history of OpenChrome. So can I understand
that most of current code is coming from VIA's engineers? And current OGPM is
not enough to write current driver?
By the way, I thought Kevin just want to explain James's latest code is pretty
good...

Thanks,
Frank

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