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

[Michael Karcher]

Am Dienstag, den 16.04.2013, 10:23 -0700 schrieb Matt Turner:
> >> 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 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.

On a related issue, I want to tell you that I really like that the i915g
driver has not been abandoned! It enables me to play games that make use
of vertex shaders on my GMA950 notebook with decent performance (thanks
to llvmpipe). The classic mesa vertex shader emulation pipeline does not
provide comparable performance. Having to compile from source to get the
i915g is not a problem for me, but it makes it harder for me to tell
other people: "This game will work on your system, you *just* have to
compile your own mesa"...

I suspect there might be a comparable need for a i965g driver, as that
chip has no vertex shader hardware.

Regards,
  Michael Karxher