split mach64 out ?

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:49:25PM +0200, George - 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 ?
> 
> I'll probably push the 0001 patch now and the rest after 6.8 is released if this sounds good.
> 
> regards,
> George.

What was the technical reason to not continue
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/libv/xf86-video-mach64.git
in the first place?

Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.