[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] st/va: hardlink driver instances to gallium_drv_video.so

[Emil Velikov]

Hi Stefan,

On 21 April 2016 at 14:05, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> From: Jimmy Berry <jimmy at boombatower.com>
>
> Removes the need to set LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=gallium for supported targets and is
> consistent with vdpau and general gallium drivers.
There are two options here afaict:
 - Use an updated libva which already handles "gallium_drv.so"
 - Chip-in on the following topic [1] and working from there.

Personally I'd opt for the former, because (as you know) hardlinking
things is a bit nasty.

Speaking of which you guys are the only ones building multiple drivers
at once (thus a megablob is created) yet still shiping the identical
file as separate drivers.

Suggestion - you can merge the separate packages into one or build
mesa separate times to produce binaries similar to before megadriver.

Emil

[1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/58540/