stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Sat Jan 19 22:52:19 PST 2008


Dave Airlie wrote:
> Granted I'd be happy to move all the open source drivers back into the
> server build and get rid of whole idea of a stable ABI between
> releases...

But then you'ld have to get all the driver maintainers to meet the
release cycles of the X server, instead of letting Intel release
quarterly, while ATI does developer snapshots for a year between
stable releases.

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     -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
      Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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