<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - DRM bootup error on VX900 platform" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473#c13">Comment # 13</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - DRM bootup error on VX900 platform" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473">bug 94473</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:huangran@iscas.ac.cn" title="HuangRan <huangran@iscas.ac.cn>"> HuangRan</a> <pre>(In reply to Benno Schulenberg from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94473#c12">comment #12</a>) > (In reply to Kevin Brace from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94473#c5">comment #5</a>) > > 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</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>