On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Alexander von Gluck <kallis...@unixzen.com> wrote: > Good afternoon! > > The Haiku OS project (not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001) has > found ourselves in a weird spot, we have a working Mesa software > render library based on a *heavily* modified Mesa 7.4.4. > > http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/libs/mesa > > However as you can imagine, updating that is going to be a *big* > pain point. As Haiku is looking to get some basic 3D rendering > going on it's cards, we need to do upgrade to a newer version of > Mesa. > > If we produced well thought out Haiku OS support patches, would > Mesa as a project be interested in accepting them upstream? I think > a better direction may be to move away from the heavily custom > integrated mesa library and move to stock version. > > These patches would likely start as run-of-the-mill #ifdef __HAIKU__ > macros. > > As Haiku has a much smaller developer base then Mesa (20-30 commiters) > these first steps would greatly assist us in getting hardware assisted > 3d acceleration going. > > Keep in mind this is all early analysis, I haven't tried porting 7.11.2 > yet :)
In general I'm happy to take patches for Haiku. But I wouldn't want to see #ifdef __HAIKU__ lines scattered all over the code. Hopefully, that can be limited to header files as with other platforms. What GPUs/cards do you need to support? Does this involve restoring any legacy drivers that were removed a few weeks ago? Could you move to Gallium-based drivers? -Brian _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
