[Mesa-dev] Drooping multiple driver support in EGL?

[Kenneth Graunke]

On 12/23/2011 10:51 AM, Chia-I Wu wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> On 12/23/2011 07:20 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>>> Couldn't we restructure this such that OpenVG (and all other state
>>> trackers on Linux) still use a dri2 driver, but one which exposes an
>>> additional (gallium specific) interface?
>> I was going to suggest something similar.  I think we want fewer EGL
>> backends to test and maintain, not more.  Right?
> I totally agree with that.  I even had an unfinished branch for that.
> 
> Note that this thread is about dropping multiple EGL driver support.
> The motivation for having OpenVG in DRI2 drivers is that we do not
> want multiple EGL drivers.  The former should push the latter to
> happen more quickly, instead of preventing it from happening.

I'm totally in favor of having a single EGL driver.