Now I'm curious. Is it the case that every DRI1 driver <i>could be</i> a DRI2 driver with enough effort? Not talking about emulating hardware features.<div><br></div><div>Patrick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Dave Airlie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:airlied@gmail.com">airlied@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Connor Behan <<a href="mailto:connor.behan@gmail.com">connor.behan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 01/03/12 01:36 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> You can still build r128_dri.so from Mesa 7.11 and it will work with later<br>
>> Mesa libGLs fine. You just can't build it from Mesa 8.0 source anymore.<br>
><br>
> Really? Even if no one updates r128 to stay compatible with new libGLs and<br>
> no one updating libGL gives a second thought as to whether that update will<br>
> break r128? I thought the whole point of removing DRI1 drivers is that most<br>
> of you are too pressured to keep that promise. If the plan really is to<br>
> update libGL carefully so that DRI1 drivers will always work with it, then<br>
> it seems like their removal does nothing but save a few MB of space on the<br>
> git server.<br>
<br>
</div>Thats the plan, some distros have to keep shipping older drivers, but<br>
also want to ship newer drivers.<br>
<br>
the libGL -> driver interface is a lot more standard than the internal<br>
mesa<->driver interfaces, and are not the same thing.<br>
<br>
Removing the drivers allowed major simplification of mesa internal<br>
interfaces not the GL->driver interface.<br>
<br>
It doesn't save any space on the git server since git holds all the<br>
history ever.<br>
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Dave.<br>
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