xgi vs xgixp

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 08:53:50 PDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Dave Airlie<airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> These both driver similiar hw I think, can we pick one to ship,
>
> xgi seems to have shipped for longer, and xgixp doesn't appear
> to have ever quite made a real release.

They support different hardware.  xgi supports sis derived cards and
is more or less a clone of the sis driver and could probably be merged
with sis while xgixp supports trident derived cards which could
probably be merged with trident.

Alex



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