Re: xserver-xorg-video-via
Hi Luc,
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:30:19PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>
> Patrick, there are a few misconceptions here.
Probably you are right. However I'm not involved in openchrome or
unichrome development, so I can just say what I see from a user
perspective.
> When the openchrome fork happened, it was deemed upstream that the only
> acceptable solution was that openchrome maintained the upstream via
> driver.
Who do you mean by upstream in this case? And why did they deem so?
> I wanted -via to disappear there and then already, but this was
> not deemed an acceptable solution.
And be replace by -unichrome or -openchrome or what? :)
> Also, -unichrome is not dead. I am just overloaded with work on
> -radeonhd.
Okay I see. But you must commit that 2 years+ not having a release makes
it look like this for the user. BTW. where is the sense in having two
indepent drivers anyway? Why not join efforts with the openchrome
project and develop a good driver together with them? For users its only
irritating to have 2+ drivers and never really know which one they can
use. Besides that it makes decision harder for distributors who need to
choose a driver, too. And their choice has a lot more weight then one
might see, because users would like to apt-get or zappy or whatelese
their drivers instead of downloading svn trunks or git repositories. :)
Best Regards,
Patrick
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