ports/75666: add Matrox MGA Driver to xorg-server

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:28 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> > Synopsis: add Matrox MGA Driver to xorg-server
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: anholt
> > State-Changed-When: Thu Jan 13 20:52:48 GMT 2005
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > I've committed an mga_hal port in x11-servers which I believe does all
> > that's necessary for MGA HAL support, without cluttering up xorg-server.
> >  (I read the
> > diffs and didn't see things that seemed too major, but please tell me if
> > there are pieces of Matrox's code that are necessary).
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75666
> 
> Would be nice to get the mga_drv.o module installed too since there is a
> noteable performance plus by using that file instead of the one which gets
> compiled from xorg (at least on my Cel500)

What would be even nicer is figuring out which of the hunks of Matrox's
patch would cause a performance improvement, so it can get integrated
upstream and everyone can benefit without having to do an mess like the
nvidia driver that gets broken on a regular basis.  The diff is pretty
small if you do diff -bu

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