On 04/16/2013 09:58 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Chia-I Wu <olva...@gmail.com> wrote:
If there is no objection, I'd like to merge it in a day or two.
My only objection is over adding a driver that is explicitly a toy,
the confusion it will cause users, and the developer time it will
waste. It wasn't uncommon for a user to waste a nontrivial amount of
someone's time in #intel-gfx only to discover that they were trying to
use the (old) i965g driver that no one maintained.
That's very true.
I wonder, should i965g be built by default? Or should you have to
explicitly request it via --with-gallium-drivers=i965? The thinking is
that the default should be to build the drivers most people want to use.
We could also make ./configure print out a warning message saying
something like: "The Gallium i965 driver is highly experimental and not
supported by Intel. Intel recommends using the classic driver
(--with-dri-drivers=i965)."
Those are just ideas. I'm open to discussion.
I think everything Marek said was correct. If you could extend Gallium
to consume GLSL IR it might actually be an interesting project.
I agree, that would be interesting. It'd definitely make for a more
compelling classic vs. gallium comparison.
--Ken
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