On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Feng, Haitao <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to know what is the future of Xephyr and Kdriver from your point of > view. Will you still need someone maintain Xephyr? I am willing to maintain it > if needed.
I wouldn't discourage someone from maintaining any part of X they like. However, Josh Triplett and I are currently mentoring a team of students at Portland State University to see if they can build a Xephyr-like video driver for the X.Org DDX. Their project will end in March 2011. These students have no background in X development, so there are certainly risks to the project. But if it goes well then I'm hoping we'll have a good basis for replacing Xephyr, Xnest, and Xdmx. The students just started work, and are sorting out the usual build environment issues. We're encouraging them to show up on this list or IRC as they get into the actual development, so hopefully you'll all get to monitor their progress and perhaps offer helpful feedback. If you feel the need to flame them, please mail me privately instead and I'll have a talk with them. :-) GL acceleration is not likely to happen by March--I'm not even sure the driver will have input support, given how painful that is for Xephyr et al today. If you want to use Xephyr for Meego development now, you might want to continue your work regardless of how these students do. Jamey _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
