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Date:      Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:32:01 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 214884] x11-servers/mga_hal: delete useless port
Message-ID:  <bug-214884-7141-YJHt9wWr3o@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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matthew@reztek.cz has reassigned Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org>=
's
request for maintainer-feedback to x11@FreeBSD.org:
Bug 214884: x11-servers/mga_hal: delete useless port
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D214884



--- Description ---
Created attachment 177454
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3D177454&action=
=3Dedit
remove useless x11-servers/mga_hal

MGA_HAL contains a binary blob that was once used by the MGA DDX to support
some features of the Matrox G400. It was not needed on G450 or G550, and the
features it was used for on G400 were re-implemented without it. Support for
MGA_HAL was removed from xf86-video-mga on 2011-09-20 prior to the 1.5.0
release. Thus, this port has had absolutely no purpose since xf86-video-mga=
 was
updated past that point. I assume this port was forgotten because it reside=
s in
the wrong category (x11-servers instead of x11-drivers) and the only possib=
le
consumer (xf86-video-mga) did not appear to have ever declared mga_hal as a
dependency. Just kill it.



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