pciaccess rework status.

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Wed Feb 6 22:15:06 PST 2008


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Chris Ball wrote:

| There are currently eleven video drivers that are listed as "maintained"
| and are failing to build on the tinderbox machines:
|
|   http://tinderbox.freedesktop.org/
|
| They are:
|  amd, chips, glint, i128, neomagic, rendition, tdfx, tga, trident,
|  tseng, voodoo.

I thought that I ported both tdfx and rendition.  I may have local
patches that need to be pushed to master.  I'll check on it in the morning.

| The proximate cause of each failure is the use of the pre-libpciaccess
| (`pciVideoPtr') API.
|
| Should some of these drivers be marked unmaintained?  Of those that
| should continue to be maintained, do we have volunteers to fix them?
| (I know that Bernie Innocenti is working on amd.)

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