[forum] (huge tangent away from) the removal of Packard

[Alan Cox]

> I'll take your word for it. How much of that is Red Hat people, and how much
> of it is Precision Insight->VA Linux->Red Hat people?
> 
> DRI isn't XFree86, FWIW.

Cyrix driver fixup - Red Hat people
Palmax pen driver - Red Hat people
Porting/merging the stylistic driver - Red Hat people
URGear driver - Red Hat people (admittedly motivated by a desire to 
				kick ass at quake not corporate policy)

I believe Mike Harris did a chunk of work on improving 2D acceleration
on Radeon using DRI, but that may have been solely backporting stuff to
older releases.

> Apple/MacOS. The point of the loadable server was so that XFree86 could get
> out of the driver space and vendors could deal with their own drivers.

Maybe you are right, maybe its an education thing. If so the question
becomes 'What is the best way for people to find the current driver for XYZ'

> etc, for the last 3 years. People working on Open Source desktop
> environments/apps could learn a LOT from spending a few days in an AOL call
> center...

I've spent some time working at a telco. I can second your opinion 8)

Alan