[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] r600: fork and import gallium/radeon

[Marek Olšák]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14.09.2017 16:19, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marek,
>>
>> On 14 September 2017 at 14:06, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>>>
>>> This marks the end of code sharing between r600 and radeonsi.
>>>
>> It has the "what" but it's missing the "why". Can you please add some
>> information.
>
>
> Basically, it's getting difficult to work on radeonsi without breaking r600.
>
> It's not ideal, but (1) without a solid testing infrastructure that tests
> all the way back to r600, this is a reasonable measure to reduce the
> development risk, and (2) with some rare exceptions, our work on radeonsi
> tends not to help r600, neither in performance nor in features (and least of
> all bug fixes).
>
> I haven't looked at the patch itself yet, but I'm okay with the general
> idea.

Does it mean I can push this?

Thanks,
Marek