s3switch maintenance

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
> [s3switch is a tool for switching outputs on S3 Savage cards]
>
> Hi,
> Due to popular request, I would like to revive the s3switch tool and
> maintain it. It is still shipped in Fedora, based on a patch set from
> Debian and a couple of additional patches, but meanwhile it has
> ironically been dropped from Debian. To make it easier for everybody,
> I would like to set up a new "upstream" for it. I am also maintaining
> the related xorg savage driver*.
>
> So I have set up a git repo and applied the patches I could find in
> Debian and Fedora:
>  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~tormod/s3switch
> I have faked the git history in order to give due credit as far as I
> could, digging through package changelogs and patch descriptions.
> Please tell me if there is something you are not happy about, I can
> still rebase it.
>
> xorg-devel: Maybe I should directly make an own project/module for it,
> to not host it in a private repo? It is a bit like radeontool and
> similar.
> Guido: I am willing to maintain it in Debian (and host it in
> collab-maint or pkg-xorg), maybe you can help with some "paperwork"?
> Tim: Did you think people would ask for this, 10 years after? :)
>
> Best regards,
> Tormod
>
> *) Ideally this tools' functionality should be available through
> xrandr. But it would require porting the DDX to xrandr 1.2 which I
> think nobody wants to do. Patches would be welcome though! So for now
> it is easier to keep s3switch alive instead.

FWIW, I think this will likely conflict with the zaphod style dualhead
support in the savage driver, but the hw is so old, I doubt anyone
will care.

Alex

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