[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/53] i965: Eat libdrm_intel for breakfast

[Chad Versace]

On Tue 04 Apr 2017, Kenneth Graunke wrote:

> This series imports libdrm_intel into the i965 driver, hacks and
> slashes it down to size, and greatly simplifies our relocation
> handling.

You did it! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!!! Thanks for taking the leap.

> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~kwg/mesa/log/?h=bacondrm

Bacon. Yum.......

> This series begins making incremental progress towards a better future
> by importing libdrm_intel, and adjusting it to fit our needs.  libdrm
> provides some fairly foundational pieces of the driver, so it's not
> easy to move away from it in one swoop.  The series does not yet solve
> most of the problems, but it does cut 85% of the code out, and removes
> ABI-guarantee problems, which should make it much easier to work with.

This is a great start.

> I apologize that it may be difficult to review: most people aren't
> familiar with this code (I learned a lot myself), and it's kind of
> huge.  I tried.

I've poked inside libdrm enough times that I volunteer to do some
reviewing.