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

[Roland Mainz]

Kristian Høgsberg 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 :)

You won't get rid of cfb until you turn over other drivers like the
PCL/PCL-MONO/PCL-LJ3 drivers over to something else, too.

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Bye,
Roland

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