[Mesa-dev] Potentially EOL ilo gallium driver

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 December 2016 at 03:16, Edward O'Callaghan
> <funfunctor at folklore1984.net> wrote:
>> This patch is to potentially remove ourself from the maintaince
>> burden of the ilo driver that appears to now be essentially
>> unmaintained?
>>
>> I am not sure of our policy here or if there are too many
>> users so this patch is really only to gauge a response of
>> how folks feel?
>>
> Surely you want to CC the core/sole developer of the driver when
> considering its removal.
> Maybe mailman was "nice" and hid his email in the header ;-)
>
> Either way adding Chia-I Wu to the list.
>
> -Emil
> P.S. Not sure/sold how much of an actual burden the driver is, yet I
> don't make serious gallium infra changes.

really hasn't been a problem for me..

That said, it would be nice if someday someone wired this up to use
glsl_to_nir path in gallium and re-used i965's nir backend.  I think
that would make ilo somewhat more interesting..

BR,
-R