Re: Discussing issues

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:42:07AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > There was a suggestion for Keith to setup another repository to do
> > his work and work with others interested in the code he was working
> > on. i.e. RENDER, Xc/Xr etc and submit patches to XFree86 at times
> > when that team feels they are mature enough for the majority to
> > test or for release to the wider world back to XFree86 for inclusion
> > similar to the way the DRI works.
> 
> I think 3D would work significantly better if relevant pieces were
> developed inside the X distribution.  DRI often suffers from significant
> integration lag and support problems because the code people download from
> XFree86 bears little resemblance to the code the Mesa and DRI developers
> are working on.  
 
The DRI depends on Mesa, and I doubt Mesa developers would do development
of Mesa purely in XFree86 as it works outside of the model also. So we
still have import issues. 

The same goes for FreeType2, expat, etc. We merge in when new pieces
are needed as we always have integration lag with these components too.

> During the RandR integration for 4.3, I was unable to run the Radeon
> GL driver from XFree86 on any of my video cards which led to video memory
> issues that were only fixed when the Radeon driver was updated shortly
> before the release and my cards started working again.
 
I've been unable to rotate my screen every since RandR was munged into
the XFree86 DDX, and it segfaults the server now too. This was brought
to your attention many times Keith and yet it still went unresolved coming
to the release of 4.3.0. At least in your example it was fixed prior
to a full release.

Alan.
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