Re: Bug#785770: RM: xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion [arm64] -- RoP; FTBFS; out-of-date; uninstallable; quite possiblly never worked, little if any utility
+++ peter green [2015-05-20 01:49 +0100]:
> 3: the siliconmotion chips in question seem to be obsolete parts
> mostly used for onboard graphics in old systems (though I did find
> one industrial minipcie card that claimed to use a siliconmotion
> chip, dunno if it's one supported by this driver). It seems unlikely
> that one would end up in an arm64 system.
I'm not aware of it being in use on any arm64 systems.
So far I think we have mali, adreno, and powervr, but some machines
have pci so 'any PCI graphics card you care to plug in' could also be
used.
Nothing stops some random tier 4 vendor finding that siliconmotion is
cheap and integrating it at some point so in general we should keep
all drivers around for all arches to maximise people's chance of
'just working'. But if this one is hopelessly bust anyway I don't
suppose anyone will miss it, at least for the time being.
Wookey
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