[Mesa-dev] cairo as state tracker

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 06.08.2016 15:23, Marek Olšák wrote:

> I'd recommend moving the cairo rendering code into Mesa and have Mesa
> implement and export some kind of a low-level cairo library.

That would essentially create a circular dependency - and cairo's
surface backend API is also private.

> Please note that Gallium doesn't support Intel GPUs, which may be a
> significant part of your user base.

Not so much the intended userbase, but myself - working on an notebook
w/ i915.

Is there any special reason why gallium doesnt support Intel GPUs
(besides that maybe just nobody cared yet) ?


--mtx