[PATCH 18/19] xfree86: Remove driver entity hooks and private

[Keith Packard]

Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> writes:

> Can we consider coming up with a heuristic for the oldest server version
> that current git versions of drivers will continue to support?  The
> amount of #ifdef in the drivers is getting a bit absurd, and it's a bit
> disingenuous to pretend our support goes back as far as we currently let
> build.

The question is back porting support for new hardware to old distros;
that's generally easier done by taking the new driver and compiling it
with the old X server bits than by back-porting hardware support into
the old driver.

For a driver using KMS and Glamor, it might not actually matter all that
much as the hardware-specific code in the driver heads to zero.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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