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Request 1119448 revoked

As far as I know, SiS drivers was removed from the kernel in version 6.3. That makes this package to configure SiS hardware "useless" in my mind.
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Stefan Dirsch's avatar

I guess you're talking about the native fb driver in the kernel, which was disabled in our kernel anyway since the beginning. I'm not aware of a SiS kms driver. We still have xf86-video-sis driver, which is still a userspace X driver. Hontestly I can't say if this driver is still working. sisctrl would still use this. I think if we want to drop sisctrl we should also drop xf86-video-sis. Most likely nobody will miss it ...


Bjørn Lie's avatar

Well that is entirely up to you. - My main "goal" is porting and/or removing things depending on gdk-pixbuf-xlib (and for this package, I figured dropping was the best way forward). If you want to keep it around I'm perfectly fine with that too.

I was talking about the DRM drivers that got dropped:

Quote: Hitting the chopping block with the Linux 6.3 kernel are the following DRM drivers: i810, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and via. These drivers are for very old graphics/display hardware and no one has actively maintained these drivers in many years. Thus they are being removed from the mainline kernel.


Stefan Dirsch's avatar

Ah. These were the DRM driver for Mesa DRI, which has been dropped long ago. In theory sis userspace X driver (2D accelerated only) and sisctrl may still work, but it will get hard to find the appropriate hardware to test this. I no longer have SiS gfx cards.


Stefan Dirsch's avatar

I didn't know about your motivation. With that I'm fine dropping it. I don't want to block this just because of this no longer in wild existing SiS gfx cards.


Stefan Seyfried's avatar

Should I dig in my pile of PCI cards and check if I still have one? And a matching Pentium Motherboard maybe ;-) (just kidding)

Request History
Bjørn Lie's avatar

iznogood created request

As far as I know, SiS drivers was removed from the kernel in version 6.3. That makes this package to configure SiS hardware "useless" in my mind.
Adding maintainer to reivew .


Saul Goodman's avatar

licensedigger accepted review


Factory Auto's avatar

factory-auto added sisctrl as a reviewer

submitter not devel maintainer


Factory Auto's avatar

factory-auto accepted review

ok


Bjørn Lie's avatar

iznogood added sndirsch as a reviewer

Am I correct in my thinking here?
Please reject if not.


Staging Bot's avatar

staging-bot added as a reviewer

Being evaluated by staging project "openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:44"


Staging Bot's avatar

staging-bot accepted review

Picked "openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:44"


Stefan Dirsch's avatar

sndirsch accepted review


Bjørn Lie's avatar

iznogood revoked request

Revoking - sisctrl gets to live a bit longer.

I'm running into a roadblock in different packages that are not ready to give up on their gdk-pixbuf-xlib dep just yet (future versions look promising though). Hence revoke, as I will not be able to nuke gdk-pixbuf-xlib this side of the new year :-/

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