Next steps for pci-rework branches

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Thu Aug 10 08:05:07 PDT 2006


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Joel Dahl wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 09:21 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
>>
>> With yesterday's push, I believe that the xserver, xf86-video-mga, and
>> xf86-video-savage components are reasonably stable on non-exotic
>> platforms (i.e., x86 PCs and x86-64 PCs running Linux).
> 
> Wait a minute...
> 
> Will this stuff break things on FreeBSD, Solaris etc etc?

The short answer is YES.  The long answer is that I asked people who
care about those systems to port libpciaccess to them *five months ago*.
 I guess nobody (except anholt, who is working on a BSD port) actually
cares about those systems.  *shrug*

> If the answer is yes, well, don't move it to trunk before this have been
> solved.

I can think of no better catalyst to get people off their lazy duffs
than breaking their system. >:)
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