Re: X11 & Sbus devices

[Michael <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

On Fri, 2 May 2025 12:54:33 +0200
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info%metux.net@localhost> wrote:

> anybody here still running old SBUS graphics cards w/ X11 ?

Yes.

> I'm wondering whether it's worth keeping sbus support code in the
> Xserver. If there's no practical need for it (nobody seriously wants
> to run those card w/ recent Xserver), then there's a lot practically
> unmaintained code we can get rid of.

We have a bunch of improvements ( like EXA support for cg14, cg6, ffb,
and a few homegrown drivers for things like mgx ) that are slowly being
fed back to xorg.
I recently added 8bit acceleration support for cg14, because people
asked for it ( a 4MB cg14 can run 1920x1080 in 8bit but would be
limited to 1152x900 in 24bit. Some people prefer resolution over colour
depth )

have fun
Michael