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

[Brian Paul]

On 03/08/2017 11:53 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> 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.

Ugh, OK, I guess I totally missed that.  I seldom build DRI drivers 
other than vmwgfx_dri.so and never really look at the files in detail.

Thanks.

As for the large size, this was a debug build.

-Brian