Re: [forum] Interest to merge local changes?

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> I'm the head developer of MirOS, an OpenBSD derived operating system
> with similar goals (http://mirbsd.de/ for the curious), which currently
> comes with X-Windowing system software based upon XFree86 4.4.0, but
> with all the changes the OpenBSD team has applied, as well as some
> minor updates, and of course diffs to make it build on MirOS.

> I would like to ask if there is interest to have these diffs folded
> back into XFree86-current, in order to reduce the difference when
> XFree86 4.5 comes out.

> If there is interest in general, I'll pick out the changes and send
> them to the devel list, grouped by function (as for the OpenBSD
> changes, Matthieu Herrb probably knows better what they do than I,
> but I'll try).

Yes there is interest.  You may submit your changes through Bugzilla at 
http://bugs.xfree86.org.

Thanks.

Marc.

+----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|  Marc Aurele La France           |  work:   1-780-492-9310           |
|  Computing and Network Services  |  fax:    1-780-492-1729           |
|  352 General Services Building   |  email:  tsi-yfeSBMgouQgsA/[email protected]          |
|  University of Alberta           +-----------------------------------+
|  Edmonton, Alberta               |                                   |
|  T6G 2H1                         |     Standard disclaimers apply    |
|  CANADA                          |                                   |
+----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
XFree86 developer and VP.  ATI driver and X server internals.