[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add video-mach64, update video-ati

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Thu Dec 17 13:16:16 PST 2009


Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Gaetan Nadon <gaetan.nadon at videotron.ca>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:56:54 -0500
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 16:42:16 -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have added mach64.
>>>> I updated ati by copying data from radeon. 
>>>>
>>> mach64 looks unmaintained to me.
>>
>> The module was shipped in 7.5. It was a split from video-ati. Code was
>> changed last July.
> 
> The driver (or at least a fairly recent version of) works fine.  It is
> a an important driver.  Several generations of UltraSPARC workstations
> shipped with onboard mach64 graphics and quite a few UltraSPARC and
> SPARC64 servers shipped with mach64 PCI cards.

There is unfortunately a difference between "should be maintained" and
"someone is actively maintaining".   Xorg can still use more maintainers.

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