From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Fr=F6berg?= Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:03:00 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/20] xdriver_xf86-video-s3: remove package In-Reply-To: <20130102200144.5ed56106@skate> References: <44205c6a9db9d3496db982f686d29fe9d096a088.1357125961.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <50E43558.2000003@petroprogram.com> <20130102175740.359fc5ce@skate> <50E48268.401@zacarias.com.ar> <20130102200144.5ed56106@skate> Message-ID: <50E4CAB4.3010908@petroprogram.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Thomas 2.1.2013 21:01, Thomas Petazzoni kirjoitti: > Hello, > > On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:54:32 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote: > >> All of the xf86-video-sun* drivers can be safely removed, even the >> cg6, they're Sun workstation (SPARC) specific. And they're SBUS or >> UPA which is a propietary Sun bus. >> C&T, Rendition and Tseng haven't produced any video chip like for ages >> now (10+ years). They don't even exist anymore. >> For SiS (non-USB) i think i still got one ebox2300 (mini pc) that uses >> one of those if it needs testing - though it was working last time i >> tried with buildroot so no reason to think it broke. > Here I'm really only removing things that the X.org project considers > as unmaintained. So I would prefer if you could raise the fact that the > SiS driver is still useful to the X.org people, so that they keep this > driver. I don't think we can reasonably keep an unmaintained X.org > driver in Buildroot if we want to easily continue to upgrade the other > X.org packages. I happen to have old (from 2005) laptop with integrated SiS inside it, gathering dust. Does that count ? :-) Last time I tried it with my buildroot build linux distro it worked like a charm. Actually better than that. For all the various linux distros and flavors I have stuffed into that crappy lil laptop, this was the fastest :-) Stefan