split mach64 out ?

[George -]

> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:48:39 -0500
> From: alexdeucher at gmail.com
> To: fufutos610 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: split mach64 out ?
> CC: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
> 
> On Jan 17, 2008 9:49 AM, George - <fufutos610 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I put some patches in http://people.freedesktop.org/~gsap7/ for splitting
> > mach64 out of ati (I didn't upload patch 0003 which just deletes files).
> >
> > The plan is that mach64 goes to xf86-video-mach64, while the ati wrapper,
> > r128 and radeon stay with xf86-video-ati.
> >
> > Distros get xf86-video-ati to depend on xf86-video-mach64, so nobody should
> > be affected.
> >
> > People who compile from git get the messages from
> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~gsap7/0004-add-warning-messages.patch in
> > xf86-video-ati and a similar message in xf86-video-mach64 telling them to
> > either install xf86-video-ati or change the Driver line in xorg.conf to
> > "mach64".
> >
> > How does this sound ?
> 
> Looks good to me, but I'll let the distro packagers chime in as
> they'll most like deal with the fall out.  Any chance you want to
> break out r128 as well?
> 

Since there doesn't seem to be any objections, can an fdo admin duplicate
(wholesale or master branch only) the -ati repo as -mach64 and -r128 ?
I'll make the deletions in each repo accordingly.

The sub-drivers are proper standalone drivers, there is no API between the
ati wrapper and the sub-drivers to worry about breaking ...

Wrt versions, packages and modules (XF86ModuleVersionInfo) will get the
same version (6.8.0), while drivers (DriverRec) will get to keep their
respective versions (mach64 6.7.0 and r128 4.1.0).

regards,
George.



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