Graphics driver support in F21+

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 15:14:41 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:54 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2013 02:46 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>
>> For F21, I plan to orphan the following X video drivers:
>>
>> xorg-x11-drv-apm
>> xorg-x11-drv-cirrus
>> xorg-x11-drv-geode
>> xorg-x11-drv-glint
>> xorg-x11-drv-i128
>> xorg-x11-drv-i740
>> xorg-x11-drv-mach64
>> xorg-x11-drv-mga
>> xorg-x11-drv-neomagic
>> xorg-x11-drv-r128
>> xorg-x11-drv-rendition
>> xorg-x11-drv-s3virge
>> xorg-x11-drv-savage
>> xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion
>> xorg-x11-drv-sis
>> xorg-x11-drv-tdfx
>> xorg-x11-drv-trident
>
>
> Is it not better to drop entirely graphics drivers that do not have kms
> support and at the *same time* adopt the policy
>
> "From this point forward only graphics driver that have kms support will be
> allow to be packaged and shipped in the distribution"

Isn't that a bit too much?


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