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That someone is called Kevin Brace.
And my first thought was if he might jump into the gap, but he's got enough projects already. And he's working single-handedly (TM) on openchrome, the old ATI driver and whatnot.
I usually feel pity if a driver leaves but in this case... XGI never really took off, I remember the early days and it was even more painful than VIA. Sadly some of those chips were soldered to mainboards of servers and a couple of laptops. And iirc. Michael tested the blob and was horrified. These chips never ran much better than a VESA driver anyway, so there is not much lost if that driver vanishes.
With the lack of documentation, XGI out of business for long and these chips slowly vanishing from the face of earth it is questionable if somebody will ever try to reverse engineer something here. It's a lot of work and success might not be all that great.
Still it sucks that there is HW without Linux/FOSS support at all.
That someone is called Kevin Brace.
And my first thought was if he might jump into the gap, but he's got enough projects already. And he's working single-handedly (TM) on openchrome, the old ATI driver and whatnot.
I usually feel pity if a driver leaves but in this case... XGI never really took off, I remember the early days and it was even more painful than VIA. Sadly some of those chips were soldered to mainboards of servers and a couple of laptops. And iirc. Michael tested the blob and was horrified. These chips never ran much better than a VESA driver anyway, so there is not much lost if that driver vanishes.
With the lack of documentation, XGI out of business for long and these chips slowly vanishing from the face of earth it is questionable if somebody will ever try to reverse engineer something here. It's a lot of work and success might not be all that great.
Still it sucks that there is HW without Linux/FOSS support at all.
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