On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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.
Ack for r128. For MGA, I suspect the in-kernel KMS driver "mgag200" is what you want to be using. Regardless, it'll continue living a while longer :) >> x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting > Please keep this one for the generic KMS case. It's been useful. It's part of the xserver since 1.17. With only 1.19 in tree, there's no way to use the split package. >> 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. Yeah, probably should include them too.
