[Mesa-dev] RFC: ctx->Driver.Map/UnmapTextureImage() hooks

[Brian Paul]

On 07/15/2011 02:59 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:22:41 -0600
> Brian Paul<brianp at vmware.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 07/15/2011 10:07 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Brian
>>> Paul<brian.e.paul at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The map-texture-image-v4 branch that I just pushed implements
>>>> this change.  It really cleaned things up for the better and
>>>> will lead to a few more follow-on improvements.
>>>>
>>>> There's no obvious regressions with swrast or the gallium
>>>> drivers.  I updated the intel driver code and tested i915 and
>>>> it seems OK too, but I didn't do a full piglit run on it.  I
>>>> also updated the legacy r600 driver in case anyone cares but
>>>> didn't do any testing of it.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't update any of the other legacy DRI drivers.  Would
>>>> anyone object if we simply stop building mach64, r128,
>>>> unichrome, sis, etc? I'd be happy to remove those drivers
>>>> altogether for that matter.
>>>
>>> we could EOL those in 7.11, and if anyone wants to ship them,
>>> they can just build 7.11 for them.
>>
>> Sounds good to me.  I think we'd only keep the swrast, intel and
>> maybe r300/r600 drivers.  Opinions?
>
> Um, don't kill nouveau_vieux, please.

Does the old nouveau driver support some GPUs that the gallium 
nv50/nvc0 drivers don't support?

If we want to keep the older driver someone will need to volunteer to 
update the code to support the new driver hooks.

-Brian