[patch] Another savage bugfix

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:38:18 +0200, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:14:43 -0400
> Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:47:42 +0200, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > The patch looks ok to me.  I think you can commit it.
> 
> Done.
> >
> > >
> > > Is there an official maintainer of the Savage driver who I should refer
> > > to?
> >
> > Tim Roberts used to be AFAIK, but I'm not sure if he still does.  I
> > don't know that xorg has official maintainers for drivers, other than
> > maybe sis.
> 
> You mentioned Egbert Eich a couple of times. How is he involved? (I just
> subscribed to xorg-commit which should give me a better understanding of
> who does what over time ...)

He commited some code to the savage tree to support pseudo-color
overlays (8+24, etc. similar to the overlay feature in mga driver)
just before 6.8.0 was released.  It basically uses the rgb mode in the
secondary streams engine as overlay of another color depth.

Alex

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> >
> > Alex
> >
> 
> Bye,
> 
> 
>   Felix
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