Xorg: MRs on sbus cleanups

Michael macallan1888 at gmail.com
Fri May 2 12:26:17 UTC 2025


Hello,

On Fri, 2 May 2025 13:09:20 +0200
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info at metux.net> wrote:

> * https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1940
> 
>    -> removes probing for several sbus cards that we don't have any  
>       drivers anymore
>    -> we (Xorg) never had a driver for MGX (Quantum3D) cards, so there  
>       probably had been some 3rdparty driver

We have a driver for mgx, and kernel support for cg12 ( no acceleration
but we can do 24bit with wsfb ). The other cards are either dumb
framebuffers or sun3 stuff as far as I can tell.

> * https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1942
> 
>    -> unexporting a bunch of symbols that no drivers (known to us)  
>       are using
>    -> but don't know whether there might be some 3rdparty drivers  
>       that really use some of them

sparcPromGetProperty() is in use by several drivers.

have fun
Michael


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