Re: the removal of Packard

On Fre, 2003-03-21 at 21:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:30:08PM -0500, G O Economou wrote:
> > > David, you have been out of touch with the project for years and I'm
> > afraid
> > > it shows. Red Hat contributed the working Cyrix mediagx driver, four
> > > input drivers and various other bits to XFree86 4.3, Red Hat is working
> > > hard with at least one major vendor unused to the open source world to
> > get 
> > > support into the next XFree86. Red Hat engineers work on cleaning up DRI,
> > > getting it into the base kernels, chasing corruptions and stopping vendors
> > > from quiting XFree86 work because they are sick of the hassle of getting
> > > stuff into base XFree86.
> > 
> > According to the DRI site, Tungsten Graphics, for which the flunkie Frank
> > spoke
> > yesterday does that.  Now Redhat does it.  Seems everyone does it.
> 
> The DRI kernel code Tungsten delivers is usually far from the kernel
> standards.  

You seem to take every oportunity to rant about this. Are you aware that
the DRM is trying to share code between different OSs for example,
possibly with different standards?

> Kernel hackers (often from Red Hat) spend significant amounts of time 
> to fix it up and still is usually in a far worse shape than other kernel 
> code..

I find it funny that I rarely if ever see these enhancements on the
dri-devel list, where the DRM maintainers are.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast