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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:07:54 +0100
From:      Oliver Lehmann <oliver@FreeBSD.org>
To:        eta@lclark.edu
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/75666: add Matrox MGA Driver to xorg-server
Message-ID:  <20050115140754.78e2fc7d.oliver@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1105735652.846.3.camel@leguin>
References:  <200501132054.j0DKsIqQ023076@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050114172824.67139826.oliver@FreeBSD.org> <1105735652.846.3.camel@leguin>

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Eric Anholt wrote:

> What would be even nicer is figuring out which of the hunks of Matrox's
> patch would cause a performance improvement, so it can get integrated
> upstream and everyone can benefit without having to do an mess like the
> nvidia driver that gets broken on a regular basis.  The diff is pretty
> small if you do diff -bu

I think that the same licence which prevents the x-team for merging the
stuff matrox provides back into their source, would prevent modifying the
xorg mga driver in any other way based on the matrox sources.

-- 
 Oliver Lehmann
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