[Mesa-dev] Potentially EOL ilo gallium driver

[Eric Anholt]

Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> I don't know that there is that much burden.  One could argue that
> pretty much all drivers for old hw are largely unmaintained.  Consider
> the r300 or i915 on the gallium side or radeon or r200 or i915 on the
> classic mesa side.  That said, I don't do that much work in mesa so I
> defer to those that do.

I see users on #dri-devel confused by it regularly.  The driver does
come at a cost, not just to us developers.

It should have never landed, and it should be removed.
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