drivers to de-support (was: [PATCH 2/3] xorg-server.pc.in: Remove libpciaccess and pixman-1 from Requires)

[Michal Suchanek]

On 18 September 2011 03:20, Michael <macallan1888 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,

> Sure, I'll get there eventually ;)
> There are some new drivers too ( for old hardware though ) which for now are kinda NetBSD-specific ( I made no real attempt to keep

> - xf86-video-crime, for the SGI O2. Register and DMA buffer mapping is NetBSD-specific and stuff like mode switching is done by the kernel driver, should be easy enough to port. The biggest 'challenge' ( if you can call it that ) on Linux would be the fact that this driver expects the framebuffer in tiled mode while Linux' kernel driver uses a trick to make it appear linear ( which the drawing engine can't deal with ). Since we use the drawing engine in the kernel as well it's always tiled and I threw out the linear hack long ago.

Is it fast enough to run at least a few xterms at decent speed?

I tried installing Debian on one of those machines once but the time
it takes to boot is way too long. Maybe it has something to do with
slow CPU and compressed initrd.

Of course, drawing using the CPU is dreadfully slow.

Thanks

Michal