[Mesa-dev] Moving amdgpu/addrlib into a git submodule

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 09.08.2016 15:47, Nicolai Hähnle wrote:

> I think the best way forward is to create a dedicated repository for
> addrlib which is then integrated into Mesa as a git submodule.

If you really wanna make a lot of people, especially dist-maintainers
very unhappy ...

> From initial experiments, the impact on users interested in radeon is
> that they will have to run `git submodule init` and then occasionally
> `git submodule update`.

Which requires additional, package specific, logic in build/rule files
of all the distros out there.

> There are alternatives. For example, ROCm uses Google's repo tool
> already. 

Even worse.


--mtx