On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 12:45 +0800, dan wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Aug 26, 2023 08:51:49 John Kehayias <john.kehay...@protonmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > Though at least (gnu packages gl) looks pretty
> > reasonable to start for maybe a graphics team? Maybe with vulkan?
> >
> > I'm still not sure but I should probably propose something concrete
> > with at least myself for gl since those patches generally will go
> > to
> > the mesa-updates branch for convenient building.
> >
> > Anyone else want in?
>
> I use vulkan and sdl2 for my day to day development, and I once
> submitted
> a patch series updating various vulkan packages. I'm interested in
> maintaining these vulkan packages and I like the idea of having a
> graphics team. Meanwhile, I'm not so sure if the team should be
> responsible for sdl2, but I would like to discuss the possibility
> first.
>
I would also want to submit the libre-soc vulkan driver to a branch,
once it exists. Currently all vulkan compatible GPUs need non-free
firmware blobs.