[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add video-mach64, update video-ati
Mark Kettenis
mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Sun Aug 29 06:55:56 PDT 2010
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:16:16 -0800
> From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
>
> Mark Kettenis wrote:
> >> From: Gaetan Nadon <gaetan.nadon at videotron.ca>
> >> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:56:54 -0500
> >>
> >>> mach64 looks unmaintained to me.
> >>
> >> The module was shipped in 7.5. It was a split from video-ati. Code was
> >> changed last July.
> >
> > The driver (or at least a fairly recent version of) works fine. It is
> > a an important driver. Several generations of UltraSPARC workstations
> > shipped with onboard mach64 graphics and quite a few UltraSPARC and
> > SPARC64 servers shipped with mach64 PCI cards.
>
> There is unfortunately a difference between "should be maintained" and
> "someone is actively maintaining". Xorg can still use more maintainers.
OK, I'll bite. I recently obtained a couple of Mach64 PCI cards, so I
can test stuff on non-SPARC hardware as well. Have some fixes for
issues that surface in multi-card setups as well.
Cheers,
Mark
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