[Mesa-dev] Removing out of date Mesa wiki pages

[Benjamin Bellec]

RadeonProgram page just removed.

2015-02-05 20:52 GMT+01:00 Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Benjamin Bellec <b.bellec at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > And what about removing the "RadeonProgram" page [1] ?
> >
> > From my point of view, this page depicts a wrong picture of the Radeon
> Mesa
> > driver. While I'm pretty sure most of the current and past games runs
> fine
> > today with r300g/r600g/radeonsi, this is not what one could think at a
> first
> > look when reading this page. Moreover, the table stops to the Radeon
> HD6000
> > series.
> >
> > This page is useful if user can update their input, but the wiki access
> is
> > restricted.
> >
> > [1] http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonProgram/
>
> I'm fine with removing it.  It's mostly out of date anyway.
>
> Alex
>
> >
> >
> > 2015-01-14 9:52 GMT+01:00 Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>:
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 04:27:30 PM Timothy Arceri wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > Not sure how many of you have come across the webpage "Major Linux
> >> > Problems on the Desktop 2015 edition" [1]. Accurate or not it seems to
> >> > be getting a bit of attention. Anyway Mesa gets a bit of a bashing in
> >> > there although most of the information the author uses to backup their
> >> > claims are out of date Phoronix articles and this Mesa wiki page [2].
> >> >
> >> > Anyway getting to my point maybe the wiki page should be removed as it
> >> > seems its no longer useful and is being used to spread misinformation.
> >> >
> >> > Tim
> >> >
> >> > [1]
> >> >
> >> >
> http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
> >> > [2] http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/MissingFunctionality/
> >>
> >> Hooray for fact checking!  I'm all for replacing that page - it hasn't
> >> been
> >> useful in years.  How about replacing it with links to other places:
> >>
> >> Ilia's glxinfo site - shows accurate information about what specific
> GPUs
> >> support in actual Mesa releases:
> >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~imirkin/glxinfo/glxinfo.html
> >>
> >> Current feature development status:
> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/GL3.txt
> >>
> >> which can be helpfully visualized at:
> >> http://mesamatrix.net/
> >>
> >> --Ken
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