Comment 14 for bug 1772588

As I have previously commented, the geode driver is NOT obsolete. It
should not be removed at Debian, where i386 is still 686 without PAE.

Please ammend the Debian bug report accordingly.

Martin-Éric

pe 3. huhtik. 2020 klo 10.50 Timo Aaltonen (<email address hidden>) kirjoitti:
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> ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #955603
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955603
>
> ** Also affects: debian via
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955603
> Importance: Unknown
> Status: Unknown
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> Title:
> Remove obsolete X11 drivers from the archive
>
> Status in xf86-input-mtrack package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in xf86-input-xwiimote package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-aiptek package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-elographics package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-evdev package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-mouse package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-mutouch package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-void package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-ast package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-geode package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-mach64 package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-neomagic package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-r128 package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-savage package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-sisusb package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-tdfx package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-trident package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in Debian:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> xserver-xorg-video-all has not depended on these drivers for quite
> some time now, meaning that installation images didn't have them
> either nor installed them on the system. Now would be the time to drop
> them from the archive before next LTS & HWE-18.04 stack and in
> preparation for xserver 1.20.
>
> Some rationale in detail for future reference:
> input:
> -aiptek: no upstream release in 7 years
> -elographics: no upstream release in 6 years
> -evdev: replaced by -libinput (not entirely, see comment #1)
> -keyboard: replaced by -libinput
> -mtrack: no upstream release in 3 years, should be replaceable by -libinput by now
> -mouse: replaced by -libinput
> -mutouch: no upstream release in 7 years
> -void: xserver can start without an input driver these days
> -xwiimote: no upstream release in 5 years
> video:
> -ast: no upstream release in 3 years, no KMS support
> -geode: i386 only, no kernel support since moving to i586 (or i686?)
> -mach64: no KMS support
> -neomagic: no upstream release in 3 years, no KMS support
> -r128: no KMS support
> -savage: no KMS support
> -siliconmotion: no KMS suppport
> -sisusb: no KMS support
> -tdfx: no KMS support
> -trident: no KMS support
>
> Fedora dropped drivers without KMS (kernel modesetting) support five years ago:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188429.html
>
> one exception to this is -openchrome, which we'll keep since it has
> some users and might even get KMS support before next LTS.
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