<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - DRM / KMS bootup error on VX900 platform" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473#c16">Comment # 16</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - DRM / KMS bootup error on VX900 platform" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473">bug 94473</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:kevinbrace@gmx.com" title="Kevin Brace <kevinbrace@gmx.com>"> Kevin Brace</a> <pre>(In reply to Benno Schulenberg from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94473#c12">comment #12</a>) Hi Benno, > > 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.) The comment I made about James Simmons' code was meant to be my take on the DRM / KMS code he wrote, and I did not necessarily mean to criticize the previous OpenChrome developers. That being said, I have been dealing with OpenChrome code since July 2015 or so, and I have not particularly liked the code quality of OpenChrome. The code maintainability does affect the sustainability of the project, to some extent. Many of the commits I have done so far mainly deals with cleaning the code and making it easier to understand. That's all I will say for now.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>