Tentatively dropped component: glide(4)
David Nusinow
david_nusinow at verizon.net
Thu Oct 20 06:01:11 PDT 2005
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:46:24AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> The glide(4) driver implements 2D support for 3dfx Voodoo1 and Voodoo2 cards
> using the Glide2 library. As far as I can tell the only platform where it
> was ever built by default was x86 Debian, and this is probably patched out in
> current Debian patchsets.
>
> Unfortunately it is impossible to build without the glide2 headers installed,
> and impossible to test without a working build of glide2 (currently
> unmaintained) and one of the supported cards. As a result no one has written
> a build system for it yet. If no one contributes a build system for it,
> there will be no xf86-video-glide module in 7.0. However, these cards will
> still be supported in 7.0 through the voodoo(4) driver, though with no 3D
> support.
I'm totally fine with dropping it, but let me forward this on to the
debian-x mailing list to see if anyone really cares about it.
- David Nusinow
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