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Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers



On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:40:01 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

> Le jeudi 26 septembre 2013 à 23:26 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> 
> > we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following
> > packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care
> > of them.  The reason is they see 0 testing, nobody maintains them
> > upstream, if you're lucky people keep some of them building when APIs
> > change, if you're very lucky they get a release with all the build fixes
> > once in a while, and it's likely most of them don't have any users
> > anymore.  While it would probably be easy to get them to stop FTBFS
> > right now, it doesn't seem worth it to keep all of those drivers around
> > with the maintenance overhead that comes with that if nobody's going to
> > notice anyway.  So please speak up if you want to see one of these in
> > jessie.
> 
> I have an old laptop which needs xserver-xorg-video-sis, so I would not
> mind having this driver supported for one more release. I can provide
> some help (e.g. testing on my specific hardware) if needed. On the other
> hand, if keeping this driver is a lot of work, it's probably not worth
> the trouble.
> 
git master doesn't seem to build right now.

> ../../src/sis_driver.c: In function 'SISMergedPointerMoved':
> ../../src/sis_driver.c:9384:13: error: too few arguments to function 'miPointerSetPosition'
>              miPointerSetPosition(inputInfo.pointer, Absolute, &dx, &dy);
>              ^
> In file included from /usr/include/xorg/xf86Cursor.h:6:0,
>                  from ../../src/sis.h:83,
>                  from ../../src/sis_driver.c:50:
> /usr/include/xorg/mipointer.h:118:1: note: declared here
>  miPointerSetPosition(DeviceIntPtr pDev, int mode, double *x, double *y,
>  ^
> ../../src/sis_driver.c: In function 'SiS_GetSetBIOSScratch':
> ../../src/sis_driver.c:14022:8: warning: 'xf86MapVidMem' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/xorg/xf86_OSproc.h:135) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>         base = xf86MapVidMem(pScrn->scrnIndex, VIDMEM_MMIO, 0, 0x2000);
>         ^
> ../../src/sis_driver.c:14035:8: warning: 'xf86UnMapVidMem' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/xorg/xf86_OSproc.h:137) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>         xf86UnMapVidMem(pScrn->scrnIndex, base, 0x2000);
>         ^
> make[3]: *** [sis_driver.lo] Error 1

So I guess a prerequisite would be to fix that...

Cheers,
Julien

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