On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 5:50 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > Justin Forbes wrote: >> There are really no more technical road blocks in this update. There are >> several advantages to having it. To deny it at this point would be >> entirely punitive. To me, that did not seem warranted at this time, though >> if it is a continuing problem, it may well be the next time. > > I don't see ANY advantage for the users of software actually in Fedora, only > a risk of regressions. This only helps users of unsupported third-party > blobs.
This doesn't "only" help users of unsupported third-party blobs, although in most of the discussion that is perhaps the only feature that is discussed.. it also: 1) introduces the new GL ABI which decouples libGL from GLX.. libGL is still provided for backwards compat, but apps can start linking against libOpenGL + libGLX or libOpenGL + libEGL instead (the latter doesn't bring any GLX/X11 dependencies so useful for porting things to wayland without dragging along unneeded/historical dependencies) 2) adds optimized generated asm dispatch functions for armv7 and armv8 (the first I mentioned on the other thread, the second I neglected to) As a mesa developer who only ever uses the open source drivers (intel on laptop, nouveau on desktop, and freedreno on arm), I am happy to see the adoption of glvnd.. independent of blob drivers, it is a long needed cleanup to how GL works on linux. BR, -R _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
