Re: whose savage driver is it anyway ?

I've committed the change that turns the version from 1.1.26t to 1.1.26.

I'll be updating the drivers later. But there's no functional change to
how the savage driver works.

I guess if Tim's happy with 1.1.27t then he'll submit a patch soon.

Alan.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:23:07PM -0400, Nilmoni Deb wrote:
> All,
> 	I read about the daily snapshots of binary modules (a good and
> long outstanding feature) in
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-April/001302.html and
> downloaded the file "savage_drv.o" from
> http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ . 
> 
> Then I ran "strings savage_drv.o | grep 1.1" and got this output:
> 
> driver (version 1.1.26t) for S3 Savage chipsets
> 1.1.26t
> 
> It so happens that in http://www.xfree86.org/support.html , there is a
> link to the "S3 Savage Driver" page 
> http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
> where it clearly says that "1.1.26t" is the version of the driver that Tim
> Roberts released on Dec 4, 2002 (the latest release on his page is
> 1.1.27t). Its customery for his releases to have the extra "t" at the end
> to distinguish his release from the official XFree86 release.
> 
> So, if the savage driver binary in
> http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ is not the official cvs
> version, it should not have the "t" at the end. And if it is Tim robert's
> unofficial driver, why is the version still the older 1.1.26t, when the
> newer 1.1.27t is already available ?
> 
> thanks
> - Nil
> 
> 
> 
> 
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