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

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> That's very true.
>
> I wonder, should i965g be built by default?  Or should you have to
> explicitly request it via --with-gallium-drivers=i965?  The thinking is that
> the default should be to build the drivers most people want to use.

The old i965g driver wasn't built by default. It still caused
confusion and wasted time.