[Mesa-dev] new i965g pipe driver for Intel GEN6 (and later)

[Ian Romanick]

On 04/16/2013 09:58 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If there is no objection, I'd like to merge it in a day or two.
>
> My only objection is over adding a driver that is explicitly a toy,
> the confusion it will cause users, and the developer time it will
> waste. It wasn't uncommon for a user to waste a nontrivial amount of
> someone's time in #intel-gfx only to discover that they were trying to
> use the (old) i965g driver that no one maintained.

I agree.  People had this problem with r300c vs r300g and i915 vs i915g. 
  I'm not interested in reliving that.

> I think everything Marek said was correct. If you could extend Gallium
> to consume GLSL IR it might actually be an interesting project.
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