On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Bryce Harrington <br...@canonical.com> wrote: > 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.)
there's an s3c6410 one as well, somewhere around. the questions that should be asked are: * are there any PCI / AGP / PCI-e ARM-based motherboards out there? (i know of one or two PCI-based ones - certainly no AGP ones. there *does* however exist the OpenRD Ultimate which has a PCI-e connector, and the increase in speed of ARM CPUs you *might* regret removing them, as more modern ARM systems with PCI-e become more prevalent.) * are there any vesa ones? (vesa is an x86 BIOS thing!) * are there any sis USB ones? well, it's USB so ... yes! and there's one more.... darn it... displaylink - yep, that's the one. i'm not sure if sisusb contains a displaylink chip, i don't think it does - it's something different. so i'd say definitely the vesa one could go, the sisusb one definitely keep, fbdev definitely keep, but going through the list to check which ones have PCI-e graphics cards? eurrrgh, good luck :) but, yeah, certainly if you say "is it PCI / AGP only, if so it's out the window" then the really old ones where the companies have gone bust or just stopped doing graphics could definitely go - there's a list of obsolete graphics companies at wikipedia. good luck! :) l. -- 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/aanlktikbcmrxmwq3ccevns3xx9nz2zjg446kik-ja...@mail.gmail.com
