On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:16:45 +0200, Jeff Garzik wrote:
While I don't care about accelerated X support, this hardware
darned
well better continue working in an "it works" 2D display mode. VESA or
whatever is fine.
VESA is not fine, ancient Free drivers are debuggable code when something
crashes, VESA is a proprietary code one cannot debug. It can for example crash
in the VESA code due to a bug in Fedora code corrupting its stack etc, this is
difficult to debug.
Why is proposed a proprietary code over existing Free drivers?
The size of `retrocomputing' drivers is negligible and the maintenance of them
needs to be done anyway.
Jan