[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] st/mesa: remove the "Gallium 0.4 on" prefix from GL_RENDERER

[Michel Dänzer]

On 08/06/17 05:09 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
> 
> If you want to keep it for your driver, please raise your hand.
> The prefix will probably have to be added into the driver instead of here.
> 
> I cringe when I look at my long renderer string:
>   Gallium 0.4 on AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series (DRM 3.17.0 / 4.11.0-staging-01277-gab25a9e, LLVM 5.0.0)
> 
> I'm sincerely sorry for all apps that detect Mesa by expecting "Gallium"
> in the string.

I agree that "0.4" is useless, but not sure about "Gallium on". The
length of the renderer string seems irrelevant (though you could shorten
it more by shortening the kernel version string :).


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