[Mesa-dev] Four questions about DRI1 drivers

[Connor Behan]

On 01/03/12 11:46 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Connor Behan<connor.behan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 01/03/12 01:36 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>> You can still build r128_dri.so from Mesa 7.11 and it will work with later
>>> Mesa libGLs fine. You just can't build it from Mesa 8.0 source anymore.
>> Really? Even if no one updates r128 to stay compatible with new libGLs and
>> no one updating libGL gives a second thought as to whether that update will
>> break r128? I thought the whole point of removing DRI1 drivers is that most
>> of you are too pressured to keep that promise. If the plan really is to
>> update libGL carefully so that DRI1 drivers will always work with it, then
>> it seems like their removal does nothing but save a few MB of space on the
>> git server.
> Thats the plan, some distros have to keep shipping older drivers, but
> also want to ship newer drivers.
>
> the libGL ->  driver interface is a lot more standard than the internal
> mesa<->driver interfaces, and are not the same thing.
>
> Removing the drivers allowed major simplification of mesa internal
> interfaces not the GL->driver interface.
>
> It doesn't save any space on the git server since git holds all the
> history ever.
>
> Dave.
If you're doing this with distros in mind then I guess that relieves my 
fears about r128.ko. I don't know any distro that ships kernel modules 
in individual packages compiled for different kernel versions.