understanding the xf86-video-ati split

[Brice Goglin]

Hi,

I am trying to plan the future of the ati driver package in Debian and
I'd like some clarification of the short and long term upstream plans.


If xf86-video-ati only contains the radeon driver (and some theatre
stuff), is it going to become some xf86-video-radeon at some point?

Imagine that r8xx is very different from r6xx and cannot be included in
the radeon submodule, would you make a new xf86-video-r7xx, or just add
another submodule to ati?

To be clear, do we still need submodules? For the Debian packager point
of view, I'd rather just drop submodules, rename ati into radeon, make
the Debian ati package virtual and depend on radeon+mach64+r128.

What sort of version numbers do you expect to use for ati and the new
mach64 and r128 ? All of them use 6.8.0 in configure.ac as of today. But
according to my Xorg.0.log, the actual ati version is 4.3.0 :)

By the way, if r128 is going to be merged back into radeon, it would
very nice to make this happen soon (for instance before the next
release) so that we don't have to ever package r128 independently.


Last but not least, you guys rock. Having so many new features added,
new boards supported, and bugs fixed quickly makes distro's people work
very easy and nice. Our users are (most of the time :)) very happy
thanks to you.

Brice