linux-kernel - Re: Making Xorg easier to test

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Message-Id: <20100305.095406.115464327.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:54:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xavier.bestel@...e.fr
Cc:	daniel@...ishbar.org, skeggsb@...il.com, airlied@...ux.ie,
	crmafra2@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: Making Xorg easier to test

From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:50:24 +0100

> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:49 -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Daniel Stone <daniel@...ishbar.org>
>> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:41:43 +0200
>> 
>> > I understand that you guys are upset about this, so maybe you'd like to
>> > donate, say, 10% of your developer base to help out? That'd be pretty
>> > ace.
>> 
>> You have to support less than %10 of the amount of hardware we have to
>> support.
> 
> You can't compare a network card and a GPU. The latter is way more
> complex to code for.

I wasn't talking specifically about network cards.  But if you want
specific examples...

How about the x86 or parisc cpu, and all their derivatives, are those
complex enough for you? :-)

I've worked on OpenGL capable grapics card drivers of various
vintages, and I honestly don't think there is anything in there more
complex than what we have to deal with in the kernel.
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