mga driver / HALlib

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:01:17PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Ian Romanick writes:
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>  > Stefan Dirsch wrote:
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>  > > Sure. But here we're again at "* nobody cares enough". :-( What the
>  > > users usually see is the regression in the driver.
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>  > A certain amount of this is actually on my todo list.  Is there a grand,
>  > unified list anywhere of exactly what features on which hardware
>  > currently require the use of mgahal?  The only thing that I know of is
>  > dual-head on G400 cards.  Is there more?
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> I think that's it. 
> As far as I know the HAL module is just needed for TV out on G400.
> It may handle macrovision - which could be the reason for it being
> closed.
> If we can get this stuff in nateivly we can nuke a bunch of code 
> plus those ugly macros and workarounds we had to add to make this
> black box work.
> 
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>  > I tend to agree with the sentiment of gutting all the mgahal support
>  > from the driver.  Then we can gradually add the missing features back
>  > one at a time.
> 
> I actually don't know if there are so many features that 
> are missing. Stefan would probably know. 

Alex already mentioned them:

- DVI (all)
- TV-out (all)
- dualhead (g400)
- mergedfb (all)

> As far as I rember
> - and sometimes my memory lies - SUSE only considers HAL
> for G400 anyway.

Initially yes, for dualhead support (see above). But mergedfb and DVI
is nowadays interesting as well. Especially DVI ...

Best regards,
Stefan

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