Dirk> On 3 Jan 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>
Linus> XF86_FBDev is something that should be considered at most to be
Linus> a "least common denominator" kind of thing, the way XF86_VGA16
Linus> is for people who have cards that don't have any real server
Linus> for them. It should be recognized as being just a stopgap
Linus> measure for when there isn't a native driver available.
>> This is wrong, what needs to be done is to make the FBDev server
>> acceleration aware for all the other cards. In fact I think it
>> shouldn't be all that hard to merge the SVGA acceleration modules
>> into the FBDev server - all it takes is someone with the interest,
>> hardware and time to do it.
Dirk> Sorry, this is the wrong direction. Don't start to manage two
Dirk> copies of the same code.
This is certainly not the intention - maybe I wasn't so clear about it
in my previous posting, the FBDev server should be made to use the
existing SVGA code not having the whole thing copied.
Jes
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