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    x11: driver and purpose related refactoring · ea8a9089
    Michael Shigorin authored
    This has had several goals:
    - a target suitable for x86 and armh providing a rather
      minimal set of base xorg packages and generic drivers;
    - task-oriented targets for graphics use cases:
      + "desktop" means rather 2D focus with 3D being welcome
        or even essential but not performance critical, thus
        "a slower driver is fine as long as it does work";
      + "3d" means specific 3D performance being critical,
        that is "no 3D means no use at all".
    
    Regarding the free and proprietary 3D-capable drivers:
    the previous idea was to split out some common ground
    and then add the contenders on top of that; the current
    approach is based on the observation that the live images
    requiring proprietary NVIDIA/AMD drivers *by default*
    are usually of not much use with hardware that lacks
    proper 3D acceleration (like Tseng cards) or the driver
    support for that (like Matrox these days).
    
    Intel videodriver makes for a special case though:
    it is both free and top-notch performer.
    
    Thanks sem@ and boyarsh@ for discussion.
    
    PS: xorg-drv-{keyboard,mouse,void} dropped;
    those who need these can usually help themselves.
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