xserver: Branch 'master'

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 08:03 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>  hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c |  223
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 142 insertions(+), 81
> >> deletions(-)
> >>
> >> New commits:
> >> commit 5e847c1d4fc30a0d263a861a76982660f11998cd
> >> Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com>
> >> Date:   Mon Jul 7 17:08:01 2008 -0700
> >>
> >>     Improved driver selection when autoconfiguring driver without xorg.conf
> >>
> >>     - Allow returning multiple drivers to try for a given PCI id (for
> >> instance, try "geode" then "amd" for AMD Geode hardware)
> > 
> > Would be nice to see mach64 and r128 added here (these from ati split) if you 
> > already are messing with this code :-)
> 
> Most of this code was done in April, before that split was really done - doesn't
> the "ati" module still load the right submodule?   

It does, but the 'submodules' can be used without the wrapper now.

> If not, is there a good test for which to load, or should we just return
> "ati", "r128", "mach64" for all cards with ATI's vendor id?

Maybe something like "ati", "radeon", "radeonhd", "r128",
"mach64" (should be the order of decreasing likelihood of working with
any given ATI card).


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