Deprecated components

[Adam Jackson]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 06:53, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:50:16PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Since we've come to consensus on DPS, I stuck a note on its impending
> > demise in the Release Notes for the next release, so there's no argument
> > over us not making our intentions clear.
> >
> > I created a new section to list all deprecated and/or to-be-removed
> > components, but so far DPS is the only one there.   What else should
> > be listed?
> >
> > Off the top of my head:
> >
> >   - Xsun - deprecated, not built by default in 6.8 & later, to be removed
> >   in 7.0?
> >
> >   - cfb* - deprecated, but not yet planned for removal?
>
> cfb is still used by the overlay code in hw/xfree86/xf8_32bpp and probably
> some of the other directories too. The problem here stemming from the
> fact that the cfb8 and cfb32 namespaces allow us to intermingle the two,
> whereas we need to fix up fb to handle these cases if we are to deprecate
> cfb.

All of the xf8_* overlay code uses cfb.  I started working on converting 8_32 
to fb but never got very far with it, the others I don't have the hardware to 
test with.

nVidia's driver uses the mi overlay code and fb, so this is clearly doable.

- ajax
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