On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:13:09AM -0400, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > Sorry to come out of left field like this, but would the system profile > info we collect on install be useful in determining the weight of the > need for some of these drivers? For example, if there is still a bunch > of SIS video adapters out there, we might prioritize support for that > driver, but then not for others that don't show-up in our hardware surveys. Another way to look at it is the platform capabilities of these graphics devices. For example, Fedora 19's release notes claims a minimum of 1GB RAM is required. Were there any pre-PCIe platforms capable of supporting this much RAM? Ditto on the embedded graphics (eg SiS or i810 etc) -- many of those platforms had serious RAM limitations too. I have a pile of old P4+i845 boxes stacked in a corner that max out at 512MB (due to chipset limitations) which isn't even enough RAM to boot the Fedora installer in text mode. On the other hand, graphics chips that were available on PCI add-in cards could theoretically be used on modern systems, so those may be worth continuing to support. - Solomon -- Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org Delray Beach, FL ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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