XFree86: New via driver with DRI

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun Feb 15 17:35:45 UTC 2004


On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:34:18PM -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> this driver has nothing to do with savage one, right? That one for via
> ple and kle boards... If not, are there any plans to put the via/s3 open

PLE and KLE is trident video. CLE is "via" along with KM400 etc although
those only support 2D bits not Xv or 3D (bug via about that bit not me).
Also no MPEG2 yet.

> source one on FC2? I remember some people was porting it to xfree 4.3
> and the newer mesa, but didn't see anything about it for quite some
> time...

Its still a bit rickety and it has trivial security exploits because the
2D engine is overexposed to user space





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