Siliconmotion driver update for XFree 4.3?

[Gerhart, Bjoern]

Dear list,

in the past, our company got a siliconmotion driver update to release 1.4.9 of the siliconmotion driver. But it seems that the features of the 1.4.9 release have not been given back to the xorg developer community. I have the source code for this release, and it can be compiled against XFree 4.3.

Now as we want to change to newer Linux distributions, also the Xorg version increases to Xorg 7.1 or newer. But: On the one hand the siliconmotion driver part of Xorg 7.1 does not have the features we had in release 1.4.9. On the other hand I can not simply recompile the 1.4.9 sources against Xorg 7.1.

Does it make sense when I create a diff between my siliconmotion 1.4.9 source code and the original siliconmotion source code part of XFree 4.3? Maybe with such a patch, there would be a simple way to port the new siliconmotion driver release to the current Xorg version?

btw: sorry for the long signature at the bottom, it's automatically added  :-(

Best Regards
  Björn

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