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

[Marek Olšák]

egl_gallium also seems to have backends for Wayland, DRM, etc. I guess
this should really be in core Mesa though.

Marek

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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