[Mesa-dev] renaming i965g

[Chia-I Wu]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Per the discussion, i965g is confusing and misleading.  Instead of
>> preventing the confusions via
>>
>>   --with-gallium-drivers=i965g-unofficial or
>>   --with-gallium-drivers=experimental-i965g,
>>
>> which kind of makes i965g a second-class citizen, I think it is better
>> to rename it.  Then whenever one sees i965, be it on mailing list or
>> in a commit message, we know it refers to the official driver that
>> Intel supports.
>>
>> Let's say the new name is iFoo.  The gallium driver will be enabled
>> via --with-gallium-drivers=iFoo, and the DRI driver will be named
>> iFoo_dri.so.  Users will need to rename it to use it, and I hope this
>> extra step will avoid the confusions.
>>
>> I'd like to call it igen, so that I do not need to reflow the code
>> after running sed -i 's/i965/igen/g'.  But I am pretty bad at naming.
>> If this approach or the name is frowned upon, please let me know.
> To avoid false advertising, I will call the new driver ilo.  It could
> mean nothing, or I Like OREO.
I just pushed the driver to master, under the name ilo.  The driver is
still new and has many bugs or known issues, but I will continue
improving it.

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