[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: radeonfb framebuffer driver

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:32:06PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:06:32 +0100 you wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:37:37PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:27:17 +0100 you wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There is a Radeon-specific framebuffer driver in the file
> > > > drivers/radeon/radeonfb.c.  It is a fork of the Linux kernel radeonfb
> > > > driver written by Nick Kurshev, but it hasn't really been worked on,
> > > > except for a single bug fix, since January 2002.
> > > > 
> > > > The in-kernel driver has seen more active development later on and even
> > > > the kernel 2.4 version seems to support more cards and features.  This
> > > > makes our copy look like cruft to me.
> > > > 
> > > > Can anybody give me a reason to keep it around?
> > > > 
> > > MPlayerXP doesn't support this stuff!
> > 
> > Let me try to phrase my question more clearly:
> > 
> > Does the radeonfb you wrote for MPlayer some time ago have some
> > features that the in-kernel radeonfb does not have?  Does it support a
> > card the other doesn't?  Some particular bug in one but not the other?
> > 
> Radeonfb from mplayer's package is very old stuff and kernel has much
> improved driver against of mplayer's version!

OK, I'll remove it in favor of the one contained in the kernel then.

> Btw, who is main maintainer of mplayer today?

A loose band of developers, I'm one of them :)

Diego