[Intel-gfx] [PULL] drm-misc-next

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Thomas!

On 1/23/23 16:35, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>>> The only thing that is not supported any longer is hardware-accelerated 3d rendering.
>>> However, this has not worked anyway, as Mesa has dropped support for those chips a long
>>> time ago.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that's what Mesa Classic was forked off for?
> 
> AFAIK Mesa classic is for old radeon, i915 and old nouveau code. The so-called amber branch:
> 
>   https://docs.mesa3d.org/amber.html
> 
> But the removed code is for even older hardware.
> 
>   https://docs.mesa3d.org/systems.html#deprecated-systems-and-drivers

OK, thanks a lot for the clarification!

I'm glad the 2D drivers will still work and it seems that news article on Phoronix [1] is
a little misleading as from reading the it, it seems that driver support for the afore-
mentioned hardware is dropped completely which is it not the case.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-Dropping-Old-DRM

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