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

[Adam Jackson]

On Monday 08 November 2004 18:19, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> 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 :)

Since RedHat wrote the sunleo driver in the first place, presumably they care 
about it more than Sun does ;).  The Leo is a capable board [1], so I'd like 
to keep a good open driver for it.  Whether that's the one in the xf86 DDX, 
or one from Xsun (if that gets opened up like Sun seems to be threatening to 
do and like I hope they do), I don't really have a preference.

- ajax

[1] - Capable of burning your house down from thermal emissions anyway.
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