[Intel-gfx] Reason for discontinuing support for Glamor

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:13:56AM +0000, Yu, Chan KitX wrote:
>    Greetings folks,
> 
>     
> 
>    I noticed that the Intel driver has removed support for Glamor
>    [1]http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-September/044068.html . May
>    I know the rationale behind this move? I can see that Glamor itself has
>    not been updated for a year which raises the question if it is
>    discontinued, but I’m not sure if that’s one of many reason Glamor support
>    was removed.

It's a feature, robustness and perf regression, for which people do not
seem to be even interested in reaching feature parity. Development moved 
into into to Xorg server codebase making the external version irrelevant.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre