Dropping some of the Xorg Video Drivers

[Armin K]

I'd like to propose dropping of the following Xorg Video Drivers from our books:

Mach64
MGA
OpenChrome
R128
Savage
SiS
Tdfx

The main reason behind this proposal is that hardware is quite old, there is no 3D support and a lack of maintainership upstream. I have yet to find someone who still owns a hardware driven by any of these drivers and runs LFS. I, for one, have an old Matrox MGA G200 card on my old pentium 3, but that one will never run LFS in the first place (for obvious reasons). It will also ease the developers work in maintaining the drivers for new Xorg Server releases (due to mentioned lack of upstream maintenance) and having to check (built only) at the release time.

It would be wise to ask on mailing lists first if one uses any of the mentioned drivers before dropping them.

[bdubbs@…]

I am generally in favor of dropping really obsolete packages. It would certainly shorten the Xorg Drivers section.

I suppose we could drop them and add a section or note about older video card drivers. Looking at the specifics, most have a section about setting kernel options and there is sed/patch work needed for some. A pointer to BLFS-7.6 stable would probably also be appropriate.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 14730.