Re: ports/75666: add Matrox MGA Driver to xorg-server

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Oliver Lehmann <oliver@FreeBSD.org>
Date
15 Jan 2005 13:07:29
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Re: ports/75666: add Matrox MGA Driver to xorg-server
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20050115140754.78e2fc7d.oliver@FreeBSD.org

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Eric Anholt wrote:

> What would be even nicer is figuring out which of the hunks of Matrox's
> patch would cause a performance improvement, so it can get integrated
> upstream and everyone can benefit without having to do an mess like the
> nvidia driver that gets broken on a regular basis. The diff is pretty
> small if you do diff -bu

I think that the same licence which prevents the x-team for merging the
stuff matrox provides back into their source, would prevent modifying the
xorg mga driver in any other way based on the matrox sources.

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Oliver Lehmann
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