On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 9:56 PM Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 00:59, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This patchset puts device initialization in the correct order and > > adds support for G200 Desktop chips (PCI ids 0x520 and 0x521). > > why? :-) > > I'm pretty sure I NAKed the previous version because the userspace > experience for these old cards was probably better with > xorg-x11-drv-mga, but hey maybe it isn't anymore and we should go > ahead. I know SuSE use these for testing, but apart from that do we > really think we have any users for this? I'm more of the "why not" kind ... if you don't want this driver, don't enable it. Maybe worst case the physical card driver ids should be a Kconfig option or so. But if the goal is to stomp fbdev into the ground I think we should be ok with having drivers for anything. Even if it's kinda horrible :-) Of course you're not going to get any kind of acceleration, but then modern desktops don't accelerate if you have anything less than maybe gles2 anyway, and that entire idea of a reasonable 2d api that's actually generally useful died a hundred times already. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
