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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:25:12AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> Those are just ideas.  I'm open to discussion.
> >
> > The driver is disabled by default and needs to be enabled via
> > --with-gallium-drivers=i965.
> 
> I think a warning + maybe something like
> --with-gallium-drivers=i965g-unofficial might work,
> 
> the thing is distros should probably be using i915g at this point over
> i915, though it might warrant piglit fixing up, though the chromeos
> guys did a fair bit already.

Besides piglitting i915g properly we need to fix things up to keep gen2
working. So maybe mesa should start shipping with a i830_dri.so ->
i915_dri.so symlink and the ddx should start to ask for the i830 dri on
gen2.

Back in the days when I didn't just have little, but provable zero clue
I've had some amusement around that on my i855gm trying to use i915g ;-)
-Daniel
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