[Glamor] A last and final release

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Grigori Goronzy <greg at chown.ath.cx> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> glamor development has completely moved to the xserver, for the better
> or worse. Still, an xserver with glamor support hasn't been released
> yet, and it will take a while until glamor-enabled xservers will be
> hit distributions. Meanwhile, a good amount of fixes and improvements
> have been backported into this branch of glamor.
>
> I think it makes sense to do a final release of the standalone glamor
> library to easen the transition. I have been using glamor HEAD plus
> the buffer_storage patches I have posted here and a small patch to
> increase the VBO size, for the last two months without any issues.
>
> I'd like to get a fixed version of the buffer_storage patches (to
> allow compilation with old GL headers) and the VBO size patches
> upstream and then do a final release. What's your opinion?
>
> I'll post the patches shortly.

Patches have my reviewed-by.  Do you need me to commit them?  I have
one or two other small fixes to apply as well.

As noted by Zhigang, AMD plans to continue supporting glamor for older
distros, so we'll be continuing to work on the standalone tree and
will try to keep it closer to the xserver version.

Alex

>
> Best regards
> Grigori
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