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

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:16:16 -0800
>> From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
>>
>> Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> >> From: Gaetan Nadon <gaetan.nadon at videotron.ca>
>> >> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:56:54 -0500
>> >>
>> >>> 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.
>
> OK, I'll bite.  I recently obtained a couple of Mach64 PCI cards, so I
> can test stuff on non-SPARC hardware as well.  Have some fixes for
> issues that surface in multi-card setups as well.

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Alex

>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
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