Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:19:19 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: sparc ffb drm driver...
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:38:08PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> This driver is broken and has been since my first CVS merge went in
> back in April, I just noticed there now when trying to fix it up for
> some other changes that I was making,
> List of issues:
> a) no-one has complained or noticed it has been broken for at least 4
> months
> b) there is no current user space to go with the kernel space driver (Mesa
> DRI driver is broken as far as I know....)
> c) no-one has stepped up to maintain it
> d) no-one has a working user space to tell me I broke the kernel space or
> test it for me ..
> Unless we can up with some plan for the future (user and kernel space),
> this driver will be marked broken in my next merge and may in fact end
> up broken as a side effect of the changes for the core/personality split..
> Dave.
> p.s. I'd love to take it on, but I've no sparc hardware and no real spare
> time even if I had...

I think all my sparc32 and UltraSPARC hardware is too ancient or crappy
to help with this, at the very least because it's all headless.

-- wli
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