[Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH] README: do not sueggest compiling with xserver older than 1.3

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Tue Nov 29 11:20:17 PST 2011


This was done at one point in time by some drivers (3 that I remember)
but the workarounds all have been removed since. The tarballs created
by those drivers picked-up whatever code happened to be on the
developer disk and was not in git. The code was not maintained
and in fact did not work thereafter.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/configure.ac
?id=84f69081abaeef8b05cafb64d3102eb2abdf9a8e

Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>
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 README |    7 -------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 70dee73..b17a8aa 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -15,13 +15,6 @@ for the LX's video input port (VIP) feature is provided as "ztv".
 Since version 2.9.0, this driver depends on X server 1.3 or greater,
 because it utilizes the new common DDC probing libraries from X.Org.
 
-If necessary, it might be possible to create autoconf macros to make 
-this driver compile against older X servers, following this example:
-
-http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-commit/2007-February/010341.html
-
-Patches accomplishing the same trick for the Geode driver are welcome.
-
 3.ROADMAP
 
 Support for old GX1 Geodes by Cyrix and NSC will be reintroduced soon,
-- 
1.7.4.1



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