Re: the removal of Packard

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:24:36PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
>>Additionally, these changes don't seem to be making it into 2.5, as there is 
>>very little divergence between 2.5 and dri cvs, at least last time I checked.
> 
> 
> That's because 2.5 isn't used on production systems.
>

So these fixes are going in on the stable branch, not being forwarded to the 
maintainers and not being forward ported to the development branch?

In any case, telling us that the DRM code is a mess is preaching to the 
converted.  I know it needs overhauling, so does anyone who looks at it.

A lot of the problem is that the original design of the DRM called for an 
extremely heavyweight dma engine, all of which is still there, but isn't used 
anywhere except the gamma driver.  Get rid of that and all of its tentacles 
and the whole codebase would look a lot cleaner.

Keith