On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:02:33PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:16:45 +0200, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > While I don't care about accelerated X support, this hardware darned > > well better continue working in an "it works" 2D display mode. VESA or > > whatever is fine. > > VESA is not fine, ancient Free drivers are debuggable code when something > crashes, VESA is a proprietary code one cannot debug. It can for example crash > in the VESA code due to a bug in Fedora code corrupting its stack etc, this is > difficult to debug. > > Why is proposed a proprietary code over existing Free drivers? Have you checked how many of these old drivers rely on BIOS services anyway? In any case, it's vital that VESA work given that it's the only way to bring up hardware that's newer than the install image - increasing its test coverage can only be a good thing. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
