EXA Support Finally Comes To The R128 Driver

[Jonimus]

Woo R128 support! I know of quite a few, still useful laptops with R128 cards in them. Both PPC and x86. The r128 was an extremely popular chip and I'm glad this dev continues work on the X driver. I as others in this thread have a stack of them, two of which are PPC mac compatible. And IIRC AMD has some fairly recent server chipsets with mach64 and r128 based gpu's.

As for the people saying this is a waste of time, I don't see you paying him, so if he wants to work on r128 let him. Now all we need is someone to spend some time one the sis and via chipsets and X11 will once again be king of legacy hardware support with modern software.

[whitecat]

At work we have several old computers with R128 cards that could be used for thinclients or something like that. It's very cool!

[curaga]

Kudos to the dev.

Even though I don't have any r128 cards myself (my AMD stack consists of mach64 and radeon, conveniently skipping r128 ) it's nice to see one of the older drivers have some TLC.

[Adarion]

Even though we could use forces to code everywhere I am still happy that this chip sees some love. I think if I dig deep enough I might even find a dedicated card with it.

[geearf]

Pointless waste of resources... 2000 loc for something no one uses anymore. Such a shame for this lack of focus! Instead of contributing to advancing linux they waste time implementing 14 year old drivers. Some people take pleasure in uselessness. Who the hell uses that graphics card anymore?

Amazing, I am truly out of a reasonable explanation for this comment.
WOW!

[BO$$]

Then shut up and stop writing useless posts

[geearf]

Do you realize that "Shut up" refers to actually someone talking, which we are not doing when writing on a forum like this one?

I am really curious how far in evolution you were left.

[archibald]

...shut up and stop writing useless posts

Wise words...

[BO$$]

Do you actually have any argument against my statement that supporting such an old graphics card is useless or you're just gonna say I'm retarded just because?

[AJenbo]

Do you actually have any argument against my statement that supporting such an old graphics card is useless or you're just gonna say I'm retarded just because?

I think Occam's razor sufices in this case.