rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

Tue Apr 12 20:02:33 UTC 2011

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:16:45 +0200, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> While I don't care about accelerated X support, this hardware darned 
> well better continue working in an "it works" 2D display mode.  VESA or 
> whatever is fine.

VESA is not fine, ancient Free drivers are debuggable code when something
crashes, VESA is a proprietary code one cannot debug. It can for example crash
in the VESA code due to a bug in Fedora code corrupting its stack etc, this is
difficult to debug.

Why is proposed a proprietary code over existing Free drivers?

The size of `retrocomputing' drivers is negligible and the maintenance of them
needs to be done anyway.

Jan