From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755284Ab0CERxs (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:53:48 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54933 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755039Ab0CERxr (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:53:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:54:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100305.095406.115464327.davem@davemloft.net> To: xavier.bestel@free.fr Cc: daniel@fooishbar.org, skeggsb@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, crmafra2@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Making Xorg easier to test From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1267811424.3405.110.camel@skunk> References: <20100305154143.GD2505@tempa> <20100305.074932.225568964.davem@davemloft.net> <1267811424.3405.110.camel@skunk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Xavier Bestel Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:50:24 +0100 > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:49 -0800, David Miller wrote: >> From: Daniel Stone >> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:41:43 +0200 >> >> > I understand that you guys are upset about this, so maybe you'd like to >> > donate, say, 10% of your developer base to help out? That'd be pretty >> > ace. >> >> You have to support less than %10 of the amount of hardware we have to >> support. > > You can't compare a network card and a GPU. The latter is way more > complex to code for. I wasn't talking specifically about network cards. But if you want specific examples... How about the x86 or parisc cpu, and all their derivatives, are those complex enough for you? :-) I've worked on OpenGL capable grapics card drivers of various vintages, and I honestly don't think there is anything in there more complex than what we have to deal with in the kernel.