split mach64 out ?

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:28 AM, George - <fufutos610 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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).

Awesome!  Thanks for doing this George.

Alex