[Mesa-dev] Radeon DRI1 removal

[Alex Deucher]

2011/10/20 Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:35:31 +0200, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>> On Mit, 2011-10-19 at 17:50 -0700, Eric Anholt 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 feel too strongly about it either way, but if you're going to do
>> this, you might as well remove the classic r300 and r600 drivers
>> altogether in favour of the Gallium based ones.
>
> I've pushed a branch to do so to r300-kill of my repo.  People seemed
> even more excited about this than the DRI1 stuff, but everyone seemed to
> predicate it on DRI1 going away.  I'm figuring I'd slip that series in
> after the initial "remove DRI1 screen setup" commit.
>
> Any explicit acks on DRI1, or complaints about my interpretation of acks
> on killing r300/r600?

Unless there are any major objections from the *BSD, Solaris, or Linux
distro folks, I'm fine with it.

Alex