I am reviewing the default X drivers included in xorg for arm, and notice there are a number which are pretty obscure and perhaps irrelevant. I'm wondering if we can safely drop most of these from xserver-xorg-video-all?
xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-voodoo >From talking with lool and jcristau, it sounds like only -fbdev is really needed from this list. (Drivers that seem worth including such as -dovefb, -omapfb, -imx, etc. are not in the list and perhaps should, but that is a separate issue.) From reviewing the changelog it appears this list was established by just copying vars.i386, not built up from known needs by arm users. I'd like to propose that we trim the above list down for xserver-xorg-video-all to this: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-sisusb -cirrus I include only because kvm uses it for virtual X drivers; if that is not a valid use case for arm then it could be dropped as well. -sisusb I include because I know it is used for some usb-based video devices, and presume this is relevant for arm as well; if that's incorrect then this could be dropped too. Would any of the other drivers be worth keeping around for corner cases or odd hardware? The dropped drivers would still be in the archive and could be manually installed and configured where needed, but would not be installed by default on arm cd images. Bryce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110324215744.gf2...@bryceharrington.org
