rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Apr 13 03:52:58 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:03:48AM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:09:36 +0200, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > In any case, it's vital that VESA work given that it's the only 
> > way to bring up hardware that's newer than the install image - 
> > increasing its test coverage can only be a good thing.
> 
> It does not make sense to test VESA as we cannot fix VESA.
> (That is the BIOS part; I doubt the VESA xorg driver needs too much testing.)

Not so much the vesa driver, but x86emu tends to have a bewildering 
array of bugs.

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