Re: Why run xserver on the OpenGL API?

--- Dave Dodge <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a data point on older systems and their lifetimes: I've only got
> one machine (currently broken) with a really recent video card in it;
> the rest are things like rage64, sis 530, and Voodoo3.

xserver will not be in wide deployment until two years from now. Since no one is
going to force you to upgrade from the existing Xfree86 just keep using it. The
purpose of doing xserver is to exploit new features of new hardware. If you want
excellent support of ancient hardware continure to use Xfree86, it's not going
to disappear.

The engineering time and effort require to support five year old hardware in the
time frame when xserver is going to be deployed is simply not worth it. Why
spend $300K of engineering time supporting something when a modern 3D card can
be had for $29? Is the total world-wide pile of these old graphic cards even
worth $300K? Of course you can always implement drivers for these ancient cards
yourself, that's the beauty of Open Source.

=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl-/[email protected]

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