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FS#52857 - [xorg-drivers] Drop remaining old video drivers (openchrome, sisusb, voodoo)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 05 February 2017, 19:34 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 08:17 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Please consider to drop the remaining drivers for very old video cards into AUR:
- xf86-video-openchrome
- xf86-video-sisusb
- xf86-video-voodoo
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 08:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  As long as it builds we'll keep it. Voodoo is PCI, AMD64 boards have PCI slots.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 06 February 2017, 06:06 GMT
What's the point? If they're still maintained upstream I don't see reason to drop it.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 06 February 2017, 06:58 GMT
I doubt if anyone uses them in a 64 bit system.
- Voodoo cards are released between 1996-2000.
- VIA cards are released between 2002-2010.
- The sisusb driver may still used, because it's used by external USB VGA devices.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 06 February 2017, 14:31 GMT
Voodoo1 and voodoo2 in amd64 systems is unlikely.
Usb cards can be plugged into any system
VIA released quite some AMD64 chipsets with integrated chrome graphics.

So probably only dropping voodoo makes any sense here. Then again, what's the point in dropping software with upstream maintenance?
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 06 February 2017, 14:42 GMT
Because nobody use it, and other old video drivers are dropped already. I agree to keep openchrome and sisusb, but voodoo is too old for 64 bit systems.

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