Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:37:32AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Someone needs to police changes made to device driver code to ensure 
> > things are *working*, when they are comitted to the XFree86 code tree. 
> > Keeping the list closed helps to maintain a reasonable amount of quality, 
> > but it means things move *very* slowly. 
> 
> Providing the tree has regular "most of it compiles" snapshots and
> developers and others are encouraged to try them out that isn't as true
> as you think. In fact XFree has singularly failed to achieve this
> goal because its not possible. On 4.3 my Riva128 failed and my Glint
> Delta no longer works. I'd bet no XFree core member even has a Glint
> Delta on PCI let alone tested it on 4.3. They have better things to be
> doing anyway.

That's were your wrong Alan. I do have multiple Glint Delta boards, and
I did test them prior to 4.3 due to another issue that cropped up.

If you do file a bug, I'll be sure to track it.

Alan.