Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 10:15:36 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: X.Org 7.0 port? Message-ID: <1146816936.679.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200605042300.59364@aldan> References: <200605041507.08581.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060505011947.GA22804@soaustin.net> <200605042300.59364@aldan>
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On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 23:00 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 21:19, Mark Linimon wrote: > = Right now there are effectively two people who do the lion's share of the > = work, with one or two other people helping. Both of the first two stay > = quite busy staying up with the software itself. What would you suggest to > = solve this problem? > > Could any of you be persuaded to stop working on the 7.0, which, as was > suggested, brings no functional improvements, and concentrate on figuring out > the quirks of Radeon, mga_hal vs. DRI and other problems people report to > freebsd-x11? 7.0 (and 7.1, which is just around the corner) is the way forward, especially if we want all those nice "features" that Linux users can enjoy today. like XGL. Radeon has received a lot of attention since 7.0 from the X.org people, so I consider porting 7.0 to be a good thing, especially since I suspect this will make the porting of 7.1 slightly less painful. -- Joel
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