[Mesa-dev] [RFC] precursor patches to trying to merge radv

Luke A. Guest laguest at archeia.com
Mon Sep 5 23:07:34 UTC 2016



On 05/09/16 23:49, Marek Olšák wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Luke A. Guest <laguest at archeia.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/09/16 18:41, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> So currently out-of-tree radv, reuses addrlib (by copying the all
>>>> the files), and at least wants to share the register and family
>>>> header files.
>>>>
>>>> This is a set of patches to just move those into a shared directory,
>>>> in advance of proposing that radv goes into mainline at all.
>>> While I'm not against merging radv, I'd like our (closed) Vulkan
>>> driver to be considered the main and default driver after we open
>>> source it.
>>>
>> When's that likely to be though?
> I wish I knew that too.
>
Ok, but if the radv driver ends up getting there first, you cannot
expect the developers to just wipe it when AMD finally bother to open
their driver just so it can be considered the default? Seems strange.

Luke.



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