[Unichrome-devel] Re: Moving to X.Org?
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From: Luc V. <li...@sk...> - 2004-09-07 14:00:38
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:01:25PM +0200, Thomas Hellstr=F6m wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I'm generally also very much for this. > However, the development is sometimes very rapid and we get very fast=20 > feedback from > the user community wanting to use these fixes. >=20 > My suggestion is that we if possible continue having beta releases at=20 > the unichrome site and > when we feel they are stable enough, we check them in at X.org. This=20 > might change in the future, though, > as the driver matures, and there no longer is need for such a rapid=20 > development model with fast user feedback. >=20 > Comments about this? >=20 > Regards > Thomas >=20 >=20 >=20 > Ivor Hewitt wrote: >=20 > >Sounds like a very good idea. I don't think the driver's too=20 > >experimental to > >enable by default either. > > > >Also.... Have you seen the xxvmc stuff that Thomas has done at all=20 > >(provides > >support for the via mpeg decoder)? It would be interesting to provide > >support for generic mpeg acceleration at the X server level. > > > >Cheers, > >Ivor.=20 > > > >=20 > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Daniel Stone [mailto:da...@fr...]=20 > >>Sent: 06 September 2004 23:39 > >>To: dw...@us... > >>Cc: ih...@us...; to...@us... > >>Subject: Moving to X.Org? > >> > >>Hi guys, > >>I was just poking around the web and saw the UniChrome=20 > >>project on SourceForge. I was wondering if you'd be=20 > >>interested in working in-tree with X.Org, which would benefit=20 > >>pretty much everyone -- you guys don't need to backport, and=20 > >>users don't need to do any additional work to get your driver. > >> > >>Even if you feel that the driver's too experimental, we could=20 > >>just disable it per default or something. I think there's=20 > >>room for everything in here, and we'd love to have all you=20 > >>guys around; drop me a reply if you're interested. > >> > >>Cheers, and good work! > >>:) d > >> > >>--=20 > >>Daniel Stone =20 > >><da...@fr...> > >>freedesktop.org: powering your desktop =20 > >>http://www.freedesktop.org > >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3D9457857 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3D9458645 I can only back what Thomas said. The via driver still requires _a_ _lot_ of work, and our situation is=20 such that we largely depend on users feedback. A stable branch in our CVS, running a few weeks behind on release,=20 that gets submitted to x.org is probably the way to go. Luc Verhaegen. (libv on undernet) |