F21/F22: xorg-x11-drv: which for SiS?

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 09/24/2014 09:23 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Laércio de Sousa wrote on 2014-09-23 08:05 (GMT-0300):
> 
>> 2014-09-23 3:37 GMT-03:00 Jasper St. Pierre composed:
> 
>>> Felix Miata wrote:
> 
>>>> xorg-x11-drv-sis seems to have disappeared. Did that happen on purpose? It
>>>> still exists as a selelection in Bugzilla. Xorg is looking for sis module but
>>>> cannot find it. Gfxchip here is Z7/Z9 (XG20 core). Is it now supposed to be
>>>> using some other (not installed) driver? Before today's upgrade, X still
>>>> worked.
> 
>>> Seems to exist to me:
> 
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/
> 
>> According to
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-drv-sis.git/commit/?id=95dc18d4c803988702974635badb391cc50b6a63
> 
>> this package is dead for Fedora 21 and later due to lack of KMS support.
> 
> Not exactly. My OP here was intended to goto the
> devel at lists.fedoraproject.org list, but I copied and pasted the wrong address
> from an email that had been sent both places. I later sent it there, and
> ultimately was told (by ajax) that lack of maintainer was the reason for its
> elimination[1], and not just from Rawhide, but the package is gone from
> Fedora 19, 20 & 21 repos as well.

No it is not, it has been retired for F-21 and later. And as I've already told
you in a reply to devel at lists.fedoraproject.org, you are free to step up to
maintain it in Fedora and unretire it. I've even offered my help in doing so,
and that offer still stands.

Regards,

Hans