[PATCH]: Fix GLX crashes on RISC cpus.

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:28:35PM -0200, Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
>   Yes, the problems are more like a "lack of human resources", or some kind
> of X Org "janitors" team,

Well, patches welcome.  People have already started tagging bugs
'janitor' on Bugzilla.

> that would work on making sure old drivers still
> work (usually ISA only cards), that lib*fb*so that isn't libfb.so still
> is usable,

Well, basically the only thing preventing conversion from cfb et al is
people with the hardware to actually test that the final result works.

> and people watching over the commits to not "easily" allow
> breaking API if an alternate/compat method is doable, etc.

(In these cases, no.)

>   There is also the problem of symbol clashes, but if I recall corectly, the
> only case it happens outside Xserver<->libraries is the modes directory,
> if for some reason a driver that has a copy of this code is compiled using
> it, while the server compiles with its own version,

'Don't do that.'

Cheers,
Daniel
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