[Mesa-dev] cairo as state tracker

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 06.08.2016 19:46, Emil Velikov wrote:

> You mentioned "cairo's gallium backend running again". Can you point
> to the said code ?

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/tree/src/drm/cairo-drm-gallium-surface.c

> Can you elaborate why you're thinking against having the cairo
> state-tracker in mesa ? Why not keep in within - even if that means
> the occasional rebase, onto newer mesa.

IIRC, cairo surface backends are internal to cairo (same as gallium
w/ mesa). Optimally, I would prefer having it as an completely
separate package, but than we'd have that problem on both sides.


--mtx