you may have beta-testers / developpers on #gentoo-sparc
on freenode... people there have that kind of hardware.
just my 2 cents, of course.

Fran�ois


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:42:09 +0100 (IST)
Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> I've just sent this to lkml, anyone here any views on it?
> 
> Dave.
> 
> -- 
> David Airlie, Software Engineer
> http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
> pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:38:08 +0100 (IST)
> From: Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: sparc ffb drm driver...
> 
> 
> This driver is broken and has been since my first CVS merge went in back
> in April, I just noticed there now when trying to fix it up for some other
> changes that I was making,
> 
> List of issues:
> a) no-one has complained or noticed it has been broken for at least 4
> months
> b) there is no current user space to go with the kernel space driver (Mesa
> DRI driver is broken as far as I know....)
> c) no-one has stepped up to maintain it
> d) no-one has a working user space to tell me I broke the kernel space or
> test it for me ..
> 
> Unless we can up with some plan for the future (user and kernel space),
> this driver will be marked broken in my next merge and may in fact end
> up broken as a side effect of the changes for the core/personality split..
> 
> Dave.
> 
> p.s. I'd love to take it on, but I've no sparc hardware and no real spare
> time even if I had...
> 
> -- 
> David Airlie, Software Engineer
> http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
> pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
> 
> 
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