Re: the removal of Packard

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:31:16PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 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 

Which nobody has used since time immemorial, if i am not wrong.
(speaking about the gamma driver)

Friendly,

Sven Luther