On 01/03/12 11:46 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Connor Behan<connor.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/03/12 01:36 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
You can still build r128_dri.so from Mesa 7.11 and it will work with later
Mesa libGLs fine. You just can't build it from Mesa 8.0 source anymore.
Really? Even if no one updates r128 to stay compatible with new libGLs and
no one updating libGL gives a second thought as to whether that update will
break r128? I thought the whole point of removing DRI1 drivers is that most
of you are too pressured to keep that promise. If the plan really is to
update libGL carefully so that DRI1 drivers will always work with it, then
it seems like their removal does nothing but save a few MB of space on the
git server.
Thats the plan, some distros have to keep shipping older drivers, but
also want to ship newer drivers.
the libGL -> driver interface is a lot more standard than the internal
mesa<->driver interfaces, and are not the same thing.
Removing the drivers allowed major simplification of mesa internal
interfaces not the GL->driver interface.
It doesn't save any space on the git server since git holds all the
history ever.
Dave.
If you're doing this with distros in mind then I guess that relieves my
fears about r128.ko. I don't know any distro that ships kernel modules
in individual packages compiled for different kernel versions.
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