[RFC] merged void driver

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:21:33AM +1000, ext Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> I'm looking at having to fix a number of unmaintained drivers for ABI 12 and
>> because it's hopefully the last time I'll worry about multi-server support
>> for those drivers, I decided to see how much work it is to merge a driver.
>>
>> Current tree is on branch driver-merge in my xserver repo.
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/xserver/log/?h=driver-merge
>> Still rebasing where needed, but it's a start.
>>
>> My main grief at this point is the massive AM_CPPFLAGS define which I'd like
>> to see somewhere more central. In the current drivers, we can just use the
>> sdk directory, but these headers are all over the server's source tree.
>>
>> Any comments appreciated.
>
> Peter, can you please brief the motivation for merging specifically input void
> driver? I mean, we can start a server without input drivers, so why we would
> care about a void one?

I think he's just testing how it would work to have the input drivers
integrated in the server build. Starting with void is easy since there
aren't any platform dependencies.

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Dan