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Re: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source



On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 10:11, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Do you still intend to package gatos-drm-source for Debian? 
> 
> Yes.

Why? :) There's no longer anything that prevents GATOS from working with
the current DRM from DRI CVS, for which I provide drm-trunk-module-src.

Also, are you aware of the bugs being filed about the non-free microcode
in the DRM?


> OTOH, this version of the DRM is tightly coupled with the ATI.2 DRI driver
> for the X server, and this one was worked on by Matt Zimmermann at some
> date.  And everyone knows that building an X driver is currently quite a
> tedious task.
> 
> Maybe the X source package could integrate the ATI.2 sources, and build a
> package for it ?

IMHO the GATOS folks should really try to get their code merged... in
the meantime, the DDK is probably the best solution.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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