Slackware-current Graphics Stack Upgrade
Posted on Aug 09, 2022 by kingbeowulf
After the release of Slackware-15.0 (stable), not only is our BDFL* keeping up with security updates, but Slackware-current is progressing at at relentless pass. This week the Slackware gaphics stack gets upgrades for Mesa, X.org and Wayland, but more significantly, also removes a bunch of legacy drivers.
1Mon Aug 8 23:29:31 UTC 2022 2Hey folks, here's that graphics stack upgrade that you've been waiting for! 3After looking at what drivers are currently shipped by other projects, I took 4an axe to the driver list. Some of the removed drivers will still compile even 5though they are abandoned, and some of the others are still getting git commits 6(which allows *some* of them to compile). The removed stuff mostly looks 7obsolete to me (we really can't support ancient hardware forever). But if you 8think I've gone too far with any of these removals, please make or contribute 9to a thread about it on LQ and I'll take any comments there into consideration.
Time to say a bittersweet goodbye to some of the GPU drivers from on my old Slackware boxes from the 1990s and early 2000s that are now all in hardware heaven.
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