On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:14:21AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:50:25PM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote: > > +1. If anybody needs them, they're in git. > > > > Sending from a mobile, pardon my terseness. ~ C. > > *sigh* Software populism... > > But seriously. How would such a thing work? > > Drivers will be thrown out because none of those currently chiming care > about doing the extra bit of work needed to maintain at least some > highly standard interfaces. > > It seems that these less popular drivers are gone for good. Because what > would one have to do to get them back in? What are the criteria for > that? And how will such criteria evolve? Because stating "you don't have > features that some cards already implemented 12 years ago" is a pretty > shaky path to venture out on. What's next? "because i do not like the > people who develop?"* Now that would be very free and open indeed.
Or... "Because they do not fit the interface/abstraction i just implemented." Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
