[Mesa-dev] merged/mega *_dri.so files?

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
>
> I just noticed something:
>
> $ ls -l lib/*_dri.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 43779971 Mar  8 20:59 lib/i915_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 43779971 Mar  8 20:59 lib/i965_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 43779971 Mar  8 20:59 lib/nouveau_vieux_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 43779971 Mar  8 20:59 lib/r200_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 43779971 Mar  8 20:59 lib/radeon_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 43779971 Mar  8 20:59 lib/swrast_dri.so*
>
> $ ls -l lib/gallium/*_dri.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 47831465 Mar  8 20:59 lib/gallium/i915_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 47831465 Mar  8 20:59
> lib/gallium/kms_swrast_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 47831465 Mar  8 20:59 lib/gallium/nouveau_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 47831465 Mar  8 20:59 lib/gallium/r300_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 47831465 Mar  8 20:59 lib/gallium/swrast_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 47831465 Mar  8 20:59
> lib/gallium/virtio_gpu_dri.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 8 brianp users 47831465 Mar  8 20:59 lib/gallium/vmwgfx_dri.so*
>
> All the drivers are the same size.  In fact,
>
> $ md5sum lib/gallium/*_dri.so
> ee2e5c4dc84001e99f54a6ddb8a5ee88  lib/gallium/i915_dri.so
> ee2e5c4dc84001e99f54a6ddb8a5ee88  lib/gallium/kms_swrast_dri.so
> ee2e5c4dc84001e99f54a6ddb8a5ee88  lib/gallium/nouveau_dri.so
> ee2e5c4dc84001e99f54a6ddb8a5ee88  lib/gallium/r300_dri.so
> ee2e5c4dc84001e99f54a6ddb8a5ee88  lib/gallium/swrast_dri.so
> ee2e5c4dc84001e99f54a6ddb8a5ee88  lib/gallium/virtio_gpu_dri.so
> ee2e5c4dc84001e99f54a6ddb8a5ee88  lib/gallium/vmwgfx_dri.so
>
> they're identical.  I don't recall any of the proposed "mega driver" stuff
> landing.  Can someone explains what's going on?

It landed in Oct 2013. Looks like the series ended in commit dde9260fdc1f.