X server 1.10 development cycle

Tiago Vignatti tiago.vignatti at nokia.com
Mon Sep 13 13:23:27 PDT 2010


Hi,

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:41:15PM +0200, ext Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> Merging the protocol headers into a single package would be a good step, but
> it would require someone to step up and offer to take charge of doing
> release management for the whole thing.

I thought you were "almost there". Could you elaborate a bit more what was the
state of your last attempt please?

 
> Video drivers seem a bit harder, they're much larger, of course, and
> we'd really need a dedicated 'subsystem maintainer' to make that work
> inside the server. For drivers using KMS, I think moving them into the
> core server would let us refactor them to eliminate the duplicate mode
> setting code.

what would be the viable option for closed drivers in this case?

 
Thanks,
             Tiago


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