stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers
Dave Airlie
airlied at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 23:03:41 PST 2008
On Jan 20, 2008 4:52 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> 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.
Bummer :-)
we would however mandate that any changes to API occur in all drivers
in tree at the time, which would save us the current input and
pciaccess building fun..
Dave.
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