[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] configure: By default, don't build non-ARM DRI drivers on ARM.

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> As far as I know, none of the others (i915 i965 nouveau r200 radeon) could
> appear on an ARM device.
> ---

I'm not going to object, but I've always thought [1] it was somewhat
absurd that a person could run configure without specifying what
driver they wanted and then be upset when they got something they
didn't expect.

It seems like the two cases are
 - you're building for your own system and you know what driver you want
 - you're building for a distro and you build basically everything

In neither of those cases should we rely on defaults in configure.ac
to prevent us from attempting to build i915 on m68k (Looking at you,
Debian).

And maybe there's a third case where you're developing Mesa and you
just want to build everything to make sure you didn't break it. Even
there, setting defaults based on CPU architecture seems like a poor
substitute.

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2012-January/017887.html