[MPlayer-dev-eng] vidix status??

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 11:37, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > I've been trying to sync out vidix with the CVS versions, just to see
> > that some of our files are newer (e.g. unichrome_vid), some are older
> > and some a completely different!
> > And most of the changes are only cosmetics.
> > So what to do about it??
> 
> I tryed to do it a while back but run out of interest. Back then I tryed to 
> get our changes into vidix cvs in order to import the complete tree. 
> As far as I remember
> nvidia_vid
> sis_vid
> cyberblade_vid
> pm2_vid
> pm3_vid
> savage_vid
> 
> can be used directly from vidix cvs
> genfb should be removed in vidix cvs
> unichrome_vid was commited with lots of cosmetics to vidix cvs, the main
> differences are the missing doxygen comments
> 
> radeon, mach and mga vid of mplayer cvs lack busmastering
> 
> I synced vidix.sf.nets pci.db a while back to a newer one. I think some
> of the driver pci ids have to be updated when syncing radeon, mach and 
> mga_vid.
> We also need to sync libdha. Ours is  lacking dma support, but is working on 
> more platforms (windows)

I'm very much in favor of syncing with vidix.sf.net as far as possible.
We could start by importing the cosmetic changes into our tree, this
will make the next syncing steps easier.

> Also note that vidix.sf.net has changed its license.

What did they do exactly?

Diego