X.Org modules which could use some help to release

[Adam Jackson]

On Sun, 2019-07-14 at 18:34 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

>   - driver/xf86-video-ark
>   - driver/xf86-video-tseng

These are drivers for some fairly ancient PCI devices, both Tseng Labs
and Ark Logic were out of the graphics chip business by 1999. If
someone wants to verify that they work with a current release, neat,
but this is serious necrocomputing territory.

>   - driver/xf86-video-armsoc

Driver for some Mali chipsets, untouched since 2016. I think this niche
might be served by the generic modesetting driver at this point.

>   - driver/xf86-video-impact
>   - driver/xf86-video-newport

2D-only drivers for a couple of SGI chipsets. Probably more worth
preserving than ark or tseng since for the machines in question they're
all you're going to get.

>   - driver/xf86-video-nested  (has never had a release?)

I think this driver's existence might be a strategic error.

>   - driver/xf86-video-tga

Driver for some DEC Alpha machines; see above about impact/newport.

>   - driver/xf86-video-xgi

This one is probably the most relevant? The XGI Z7/Z9/Z11 found
modestly wide deployment in x86 servers for a while. Ideally someone
would port this to KMS so it can live alongside the other server chips
like mgag200 and aspeed, but the UMS driver probably works as well as
it ever did and might as well get a release.

>   - driver/xf86-video-xgixp

A driver for the XGI Volari 8300, which was a DX9-ish part from the ex-
Trident group at XGI. If you happen to have this ~15 year old piece of
unobtanium, by all means let us know if the driver still works.

- ajax