Re: Unmaintained Driver Deprecation
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:53:34AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I think it's time to start dealing with driver deprecation on a more
> active level. I'm not sure how far off server 1.5 is, but I'd like to be
> well ahead of it in dealing with the changes it brings. It should be
> obvious now that almost all the input drivers are going away, and a few of
> the video drivers as well. My feeling is that we should give people a
> chance to try and save these drivers though, so we should work up a mail to
> debian-devel-announce detailing why these drivers will be going away, and
> what people can do about it.
>
> This week I'll come up with a list of the drivers that haven't been
> ported to the new input and pci-rework frameworks and also compose a draft
> of the mail. I'll send it here for comments so we can make sure it's well
> written before it's sent. If you guys have any thoughts on the matter, or
> suggestions for writing the mail, please let me know.
>
> - David Nusinow
As the listed x.org tseng driver maintainer, i can tell you that -tseng
will be ported soon. It might even gain DDC in the process too.
The bulk of the work is getting a server with libpciaccess built. I'm
sure that most other drivers, except for a few, can be trivially ported
as well.
The biggest pains with libpciaccess were/are atimisc and IGP devices.
The easiest ones will be the drivers for antique pci devices.
Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.
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