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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>> Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver |
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>> versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the |
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>> upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between |
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>> zero and one person to use. |
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>> I left some other ancient ones that are also candidates for removal, but |
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>> I thought might have *a* user: glint, mach64, mga, r128, tdfx, voodoo. |
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> Both mga & r128 still have life as drivers for embedded controllers on |
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> server systems. MGA on ~5 year old Dell servers, R128 in the RageXL |
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> variant on similar age Supermicro servers. |
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Ack for r128. For MGA, I suspect the in-kernel KMS driver "mgag200" is |
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what you want to be using. Regardless, it'll continue living a while |
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longer :) |
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>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting |
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> Please keep this one for the generic KMS case. It's been useful. |
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It's part of the xserver since 1.17. With only 1.19 in tree, there's |
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no way to use the split package. |
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>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-tseng |
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> Yep, had a few of these cards, 25 years ago. The hardware interface was |
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> nice and clean, but they can DIAF now. |
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> tdfx/voodoo: Kill with fire, also spent time programming them, but |
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> looking at 15/20-year old video hardware with no big-endian support. |
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> Doubtful of userbase. |
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Yeah, probably should include them too. |
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