[Bug 94842] Ditching xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94842

--- Comment #5 from Hi-Angel <Hi-Angel at yandex.ru> ---
(In reply to Hi-Angel from comment #4)
> (In reply to N. W. from comment #0)
> > Hello,
> > 
> > according to the discussion in the following Phoronix forum thread:
> > 
> > https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/
> > 863332-intel-s-unreleased-3-0-x-org-driver-gets-more-fixes-for-dri3-present
> > 
> > the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver included in xorg-server seems
> > to be better than most vendor specific xf86-video- drivers.
> 
> Problems mentioned there are specifically about xf86-video-intel. Although I
> do agree — it'd be cool if everyone contributed to a single driver.
> 
> > I am wondering:
> > 
> > Then why not ditch xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?
> > 
> > Regards
> 
> I was just wondering alike, but about my local PC. So, just FTR, if anyone
> would query the internet for the same question: upon research I didn't find
> much difference between -ati and -modesetting. From the latest benchmarks I
> found (April 2016) they seem to have comparable performance. Then I looked
> an activity of both drivers, and found that -modesetting¹ has latest commit
> 3(!) years ago, whilst -ati² just 4 days ago. So, for end-users: unless you
> see problems, it's better to stick with -ati.
> 
> 1: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/log/
> 2: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/log/

A correction: there seem to be a sound confusion: the official documentation
for Glamor¹ points to old location of the code. One can easily get to
-modesetting driver code by editing the URL as in
"s/glamor/xf86-video-modesetting". I do also know that -modesetting was
included into Xserver, which seems to be okay with those URLs, because they
located in "xorg" part of repository.

Now a plot twist: the documentation is outdated, and the repositories are not
the place of the code nowadays. One can see the activity of
xf86-video-modesetting here
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/log/hw/xfree86/drivers/modesetting

I'm very curious to how to edit this "wiki", it's not the first time I see this
site provides terribly outdated information.

1: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/

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