[Mesa-dev] Radeon DRI1 removal

[Corbin Simpson]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, Radeon maintainers, what do you think?  And, does anyone else want
>>> to test it on the other drivers?  I caught two bugs in my r300 testing
>>> (one too many lines cut in one r300 commit, and I had also removed the
>>> texsubimage code in an unrelated-to-the-series commit, but it regressed
>>> s3tc-texsubimage so I backed it out).
>>
>> I don't see AMD doing any more work on DRI1.  The cleanup would be
>> nice, but it would also mean dropping support for *BSD.  OTOH, these
>> drivers aren't likely to see any more changes feature-wise so sticking
>> with mesa 7.11 would work.  Also, are there are any Linux distros that
>> care about DRI1 anymore?  If so, speak now.  Also, as Michel said, if
>> we drop DRI1 support, we might as well drop r300c and r600c altogether
>> in favor of the gallium variants.
>
> Hell yes, drop r300c and r600c as well.

FWIW (which I know isn't a lot these days) I'm also in favor of this;
the only thing r300c can do that r300g can't/doesn't is HW fog in the
fog block, and that is not something I'm gonna cry about.

-- 
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ~ Keynes

Corbin Simpson
<MostAwesomeDude at gmail.com>