mga driver / HALlib

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/28/06, Ian Romanick <idr at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Stefan Dirsch wrote:
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> > Sure. But here we're again at "* nobody cares enough". :-( What the
> > users usually see is the regression in the driver.
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> A certain amount of this is actually on my todo list.  Is there a grand,
> unified list anywhere of exactly what features on which hardware
> currently require the use of mgahal?  The only thing that I know of is
> dual-head on G400 cards.  Is there more?
>
> I tend to agree with the sentiment of gutting all the mgahal support
> from the driver.  Then we can gradually add the missing features back
> one at a time.

between the databooks, the kernel fb driver, and the open BeOS driver,
we should be able to implement the features supported by the HAL code.

Alex

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