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

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> 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.

I suppose I could ask whether OpenVG is useful for anything these days? :)

I've heard on IRC that we could simply add OpenVG support to DRI if
anyone actually cared about it.