split mach64 out ?

[Alex Deucher]

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?

Alex