[PATCH] Remove XAA

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 08:29:15 PST 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> The following commit is available in the 'xaa' branch of
> git://people.freedesktop.org/~daniels/xserver - I think the commit
> message explains it fairly well.
>
> I've got patches to intel, ati, mach64 and mga to fix their builds in
> the absence of XAA; a lot of other drivers[0] still depend on XAA,
> however.  Given that the drivers right now are broken, I'm proposing to
> leave this patch until 1.13, so we at least have some time to fix the
> drivers and get them deployed.
>
> commit 3811d1b85b71c1f8bd0b3c8269e0f7d388a51c2b
> Author: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
> Date:   Wed Jan 18 15:01:09 2012 +1100
>
>    Remove XAA
>
>    It hasn't worked for over four years.  No-one's even come close to
>    fixing it.
>
>    RIP.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>

Finally!

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>


>
> I swear this is my last semi-troll-but-actually-serious commit.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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