moving ATI driver from CVS to GIT

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Wed Jun 14 16:34:47 PDT 2006


On Wednesday 14 June 2006 19:04, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:19, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > Mach32 and older support will disappear. Doing pre pci-era devices is
> > quite non-productive these days. And the chance that people require pci
> > mach32 (dated 1993) have diminished quite considerably too. For some
> > measure; as the tseng maintainer, i can't remember seeing any tseng
> > problem reported in the last year, this almost solely because of lack
> > of users. If anyone wants to do a seperate pci mach32 driver, he of
> > course will be quite encouraged :)
>
> Just to be difficult, I'll note that I do have access to a pci mach32.  Is
> the engine really different enough to justify dropping support for it?

On closer examination, the mach32 and below haven't been accelerated since 
XFree86 3.3, so I rescind any objections I might have had.

- ajax
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