Enrico Weigelt

> for distros maintainers convenience can be fixed with meson option **build drivers only** and ability to make driver install separately (like **ninja magic_here_install xf86-video-fbdev**) For the self-compiling distros (eg....

> There is a least one "out-of-tree" driver called [rxrbln/xf86-video-ps3](https://github.com/rxrbln/xf86-video-ps3). It was asked whether we want to adopt it in [PS3 driver · X11Libre · Discussion #196](https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/196). If anybody's going...

> Could we add to xserver tree one by one only those forked drivers that have undergone refactoring, codebase cleaning, bugfixing and are reviewed by users as stable and mostly...

> > In the _very long_ run I'd like to see all of those we're maintaining go in-tree > > Perhaps I just don't see the benefit, but this looks...

> It seems like changing numScreens to unsigned is the optimal solution here. How does one test if an ABI breakage occurs? Just try to run X11 with the proprietary...

@HaplessIdiot can you please keep the history linear ? (use rebase instead of merge)

> Apparently the value was supposed to be chosen as the most suitable for a given architecture. But then someone decided (in fb.h) that it can only be 4. I...

> Alignment is still very important nowadays. On arm, unaligned access leads either to crashes or a very high performance penalty. On x86, unaligned access works, but is slower than...

The terminology "rootless" is ambiguous here, because it usually refers to an Xserver without an actual root window.

@cepelinas9000 what's that status of this one ? If some of the issues raised here are solved, feel free to mark them resolved.