[Mesa-dev] Mesa/Gallium overall design

Mon Apr 12 00:00:57 PDT 2010

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 08:00 +0200, Luca Barbieri wrote: 
> 
> This includes all pre-R300 Radeon hardware, and since Radeon
> development hasn't yet moved to Gallium exclusively, maybe there are
> also some shortcomings in the Gallium interface affecting R300+ that
> are preventing r300 and r600 to be dropped in favor of r300g and r600g
> (not sure about this).

I think it's mostly developer inertia, plus the fact that the classic
drivers share a lot of code and people still care about pre-R300
support.

> The Intel drivers also appear to be in the same situation, with
> classic drivers not being dropped in favor of Gallium ones, also
> indicating possible Gallium shortcomings leading to this.

The reasons for that are mostly political rather than technical.

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