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

Timothy Arceri tarceri at itsqueeze.com
Thu Jun 8 03:17:56 UTC 2017


On 08/06/17 12:04, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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 :).

Beginning the string with AMD is likely to hit more paths in apps where 
it is expecting the binary driver. This may be both a positive and a 
negative.

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