Re: [Glide-devel] Linux kernel Staging Drivers project -- 3dfx

[Guillem J. <gu...@de...>]

[ Adding the glide list to CC as other upstream developers might want
  to comment. ]

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:09:47 -0400, J.R. Mauro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartman, the maintainer of the USB subsystem for the
> kernel, recently started a project to get out-of-tree Linux drivers in
> the mainline kernel faster. You can read an overview of Greg's
> announcement here:
> http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Introducing_the_Linux_Staging_Tree
>
> The impetus for this is to make it easier for drivers that are not yet
> ready to be in mainline to become available so more people can easily
> contribute and use them. With the broader attention, drivers in
> staging will get the work they need and eventually 'graduate' and be
> moved out of staging. We're interested in gathering more drivers, so
> I've started contacting maintainers on his behalf. If you're
> interested in getting your 3dfx driver into staging or have any
> questions, please reply (keeping the CC: list intact).

The current code can be found at:

<http://glide.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/glide/Device3Dfx/?pathrev=glide-devel-branch>

I think it has been mostly me maintaining it since 2003 or so and I
think it should be in a good shape now. But I'm not sure if it makes
sense to move into staging as this driver is only needed by the old
libglide2 and some of the forward ported hw support from libglide2 to
libglide3. The rest of libglide3 is using DRI instead, and I think
that's what the rest should be switched to, it just has not happened
yet. So if even then you think it makes sense to move the device3dfx
driver into the kernel staging then I guess it's fine with me as well.

regards,
guillem