Re: Graphics driver support in F21+

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:30:25PM -0400, John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:54:46PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > 
> > > "From this point forward only graphics driver that have kms support
> > > will be allow to be packaged and shipped in the distribution"
> > 
> > Only if you want to drop VESA support.
> 
> Please don't drop that.  I have a large install base of SBCs using geode 
> and some on savage and s3virge IIRC.  I need at least the VESA fallback, 
> although I suspect that may not suffice in some cases.

Yeah, I don't think anyone's planning on dropping VESA support. It's 
just that supporting it at the moment means that we continue to support 
some UMS drivers, which makes it difficult to stick to a "KMS or 
nothing" approach.

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