Re: Debian's XFree86 4.2 and SiS vs. DRI
On Don, 2003-01-02 at 01:54, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> >>There were no significant changes in the code either, as I saw in my
> >>comparison. (Mesa is of the same version, too.)
> >
> > I guess it's still possible that the interface between the common client
> > side DRI code and the drivers was changed in a way that renders the SiS
> > driver non-working.
>
> Is there common code inside sis_dri.so?
Yes, the common code is part of all the code. :)
> >>I assume as regards 4.3, you mean the inclusion of Mesa4, right? Well,
> >>no one of the DRI folks seems to care about the SiS driver, so this is
> >>hopeless anyway.
> >
> >
> > It's not the job of the DRI folks to maintain a driver for hardware they
> > don't have.
>
> That's exactly what I have been doing for a year now. Implementing
> support for hardware I don't have.... (SiS 315, 550, 650, 740, etc)
I don't know of any DRI developers having any SiS hardware, and I think
this is even harder to do for 3D than it is for 2D.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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