On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:09:17 -0600 Brian Paul <bri...@vmware.com> wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 02:59 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:22:41 -0600 > > Brian Paul<bri...@vmware.com> wrote: > > > >> On 07/15/2011 10:07 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Brian > >>> Paul<brian.e.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> The map-texture-image-v4 branch that I just pushed implements > >>>> this change. It really cleaned things up for the better and > >>>> will lead to a few more follow-on improvements. > >>>> > >>>> There's no obvious regressions with swrast or the gallium > >>>> drivers. I updated the intel driver code and tested i915 and > >>>> it seems OK too, but I didn't do a full piglit run on it. I > >>>> also updated the legacy r600 driver in case anyone cares but > >>>> didn't do any testing of it. > >>>> > >>>> I didn't update any of the other legacy DRI drivers. Would > >>>> anyone object if we simply stop building mach64, r128, > >>>> unichrome, sis, etc? I'd be happy to remove those drivers > >>>> altogether for that matter. > >>> > >>> we could EOL those in 7.11, and if anyone wants to ship them, > >>> they can just build 7.11 for them. > >> > >> Sounds good to me. I think we'd only keep the swrast, intel > >> and maybe r300/r600 drivers. Opinions? > > > > Um, don't kill nouveau_vieux, please. > > Does the old nouveau driver support some GPUs that the gallium > nv50/nvc0 drivers don't support? Yes. Like Corbin said, 'nouveau_vieux' is for NV04-NV2x, while the gallium driver 'nouveau' supports NV30 and later. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDrivers > If we want to keep the older driver someone will need to > volunteer to update the code to support the new driver hooks. Sorry, I cannot promise that. Nouveau_vieux seems to have been missing a maintainer for some time now. Thanks. -- Pekka Paalanen http://www.iki.fi/pq/ _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
