[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] egl/glx: Remove egl_glx driver

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Jan 29 16:14:59 PST 2014


On Mit, 2014-01-29 at 12:18 -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Chad Versace
> <chad.versace at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Mesa now has a real, feature-rich EGL implementation on X11 via xcb.
> > Therefore I believe there is no longer a practical need for the egl_glx
> > driver.
> >
> > Furthermore, egl_glx appears to be unmaintained.  The most recent
> > nontrivial commit driver was 6baa5f1 on 2011-11-25.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chad Versace <chad.versace at linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> In a similar vein -- is gallium_egl useful for anything these days?
> The only time I hear it mentioned is when telling others to not use
> it.

In contrast to egl_dri2, egl_gallium supports OpenVG.


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