Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries - Alpha Arch Team

2009-05-06 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Robert Buchholz wrote: > Note that we have a Summer of Code student this year who is working on a > project to gather both hardware and software statistics from Gentoo > users. If you have any special requirements for your platform, I am > sure he has open ears. No need to invent two wheels at t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries - Alpha Arch Team

2009-05-06 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I've been toying with the idea of offering something akin to > Debians popularity contest tool. Some people are rather > uncomfortable with data gathering tools that send stuff to some > strangers, so I don't know how well it would work. I list th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries - Alpha Arch Team

2009-05-06 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! So where are we at with alpha currently? Xorg-1.5 As some of you know, xorg-1.5 abandoned the "classic" way of interfacing with PCI and AGP cards in favor of using libpciaccess. That, in turn expects support from the kernel in the form of /sys/devicesresourceN files. Unfortuna