[Mesa-dev] Removing out of date Mesa wiki pages

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Benjamin Bellec <b.bellec at gmail.com> wrote:
> And what about removing the "RadeonProgram" page [1] ?
>
> From my point of view, this page depicts a wrong picture of the Radeon Mesa
> driver. While I'm pretty sure most of the current and past games runs fine
> today with r300g/r600g/radeonsi, this is not what one could think at a first
> look when reading this page. Moreover, the table stops to the Radeon HD6000
> series.
>
> This page is useful if user can update their input, but the wiki access is
> restricted.
>
> [1] http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonProgram/

I'm fine with removing it.  It's mostly out of date anyway.

Alex

>
>
> 2015-01-14 9:52 GMT+01:00 Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>:
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 04:27:30 PM Timothy Arceri wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Not sure how many of you have come across the webpage "Major Linux
>> > Problems on the Desktop 2015 edition" [1]. Accurate or not it seems to
>> > be getting a bit of attention. Anyway Mesa gets a bit of a bashing in
>> > there although most of the information the author uses to backup their
>> > claims are out of date Phoronix articles and this Mesa wiki page [2].
>> >
>> > Anyway getting to my point maybe the wiki page should be removed as it
>> > seems its no longer useful and is being used to spread misinformation.
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> > [1]
>> >
>> > http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
>> > [2] http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/MissingFunctionality/
>>
>> Hooray for fact checking!  I'm all for replacing that page - it hasn't
>> been
>> useful in years.  How about replacing it with links to other places:
>>
>> Ilia's glxinfo site - shows accurate information about what specific GPUs
>> support in actual Mesa releases:
>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~imirkin/glxinfo/glxinfo.html
>>
>> Current feature development status:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/GL3.txt
>>
>> which can be helpfully visualized at:
>> http://mesamatrix.net/
>>
>> --Ken
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