[Libva] Special libva binary bundled with IEGD

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, andreas.larsson at multiq.se wrote:

>> Fyi, our current driver is compatible with 0.29. Going forward, we're planning to be more aligned w/ the libva releases.
>>
>> ishu
> Hi! Thanks for your quick answer! If I am to interpret it, basically
> you're saying that if we don't use the bundled precompiled libva we might
> risk instabilities, memory leaks etc?

IEGD is the driver officially supported by Intel. So, they will build it 
against the libVA version they validated and used to ship. In practise, 
this is 0.29 at this time. Besides, bug reports must be made against that 
version.

> Problem is that recent mplayer depends on a newer version of libva rather
> than the 0.29 version, so my question for that is if you have any road map
> at Intel regarding alignment with libva? Is it a high priority so to
> speak?

The following version does support 0.29 and 0.30 drivers:
<http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/libva/>

If you see a problem with this approach, just tell me. Thanks.

> Do you have more insights in these matters and what can we expect?

I think it would be interesting to upgrade to 0.31. However, I would like 
to see the VA/GLX extensions there first. I have no other API change.

Regards,
Gwenole.