Final split of -ati wrapper and -radeon?

[George -]

> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:23:34 +1000
> From: airlied at gmail.com
> To: alexdeucher at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Final split of -ati wrapper and -radeon?
> CC: libv at skynet.be; fufutos610 at hotmail.com; xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org; xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> >  > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:55:56PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> >  >  > Now that -mach64 and -r128 are separate drivers, is there any reason to
> >  >  > still keep the ati wrapper and the radeon driver in the same tree?
> >
> >  yeah, doesn't really matter to me.
> >
> 
> Splitting the -ati wrapper out even further would be nice, I'd still
> like to have it as we need to not trash current users
> xorg.conf.
> 
> Granted we could just special case ati in the server ;-)
> 

The ati wrapper still detects and loads the appropriate sub-driver.
People need not change their xorg.conf. If you make -ati depend on -mach64 -r128 and -radeon, users should not notice.

George.



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