[MPlayer-dev-eng] Updated vidix driver for ATI cards.

Benjamin Zores ben at geexbox.org
Wed Apr 18 13:54:49 CEST 2007


On 4/18/07, Alex Beregszaszi <alex at rtfs.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > No need to say that the patch itself is disgusting (old file replaced
> > by the new one), unreadable and, if ever meant to be commited, will be
> > applied this way (i can't waste a year trying to split 3000 lines of
> > changes in this driver to have it commited piece by piece).
>
> -   31.12.2002 added support for fglrx drivers by Marcel Naziri
> (zwobbl at zwobbl.de)
> -   6.04.2004 fixes to allow compiling vidix without X11 (broken in
> original patch)
> -   PPC support by Alex Beregszaszi
>
> Is this a fully rewritten code?  At least other parts of the header
> doesn't changed, thus I don't see any reason to remove those "copyright"
> lines.  Nick doesn't really cares about copyrights, he changed licenses
> without asking other authors, including me.

As I've said, right now it's a copy/paste from upstream vidix driver
into MPlayer directory. Nothing less, nothing more.
So copyright isn't changed by my patch but it's upstream's one.

Ben

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