cfb conversion effort (was Re: Debugging X.org drivers?)

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Mon Nov 8 15:19:06 PST 2004


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
>>> There's an experimental patch to convert sunleo to fb:
>>> http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1259
>>> which I have received no feedback on as of yet, and I don't have the 
>>> hardware
>>> to verify it. 
>>
>> Did you ask some of the Sun people yet ? They should have the matching
>> hardware... :)
> 
> I wouldn't be so sure - the Sun "Leo" (aka "GT/ZX") board is one we
> haven't supported in years and only worked in older Sbus workstations.
> There might be one in storage somewhere, but I don't know.

So, to make a bold suggestion, would it be possible to drop support for 
this board?  If even you guys don't have the hardware to test it, maybe 
we could start deprecating that DDX?  I think that Adams work to phase 
out the cfb code is excellent, and I'd hate to see it held back only to 
support a board that noone has access to anymore :)

cheers,
Kristian




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