On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: > Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver > versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the > upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between > zero and one person to use. > > I left some other ancient ones that are also candidates for removal, but > I thought might have *a* user: glint, mach64, mga, r128, tdfx, voodoo. Both mga & r128 still have life as drivers for embedded controllers on server systems. MGA on ~5 year old Dell servers, R128 in the RageXL variant on similar age Supermicro servers.
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting Please keep this one for the generic KMS case. It's been useful. > x11-drivers/xf86-video-tseng Yep, had a few of these cards, 25 years ago. The hardware interface was nice and clean, but they can DIAF now. tdfx/voodoo: Kill with fire, also spent time programming them, but looking at 15/20-year old video hardware with no big-endian support. Doubtful of userbase. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Asst. Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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