[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 04/56] anv/entrypoints: Generalize the string map a bit

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-03-08 07:53 PM, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com
> <mailto:dylan at pnwbakers.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > I know we've always given a lot of flexibility to vendor specific code
>     > (i965 or nouveau), but you hope everyone can understand my frustration
>     > with a 56 patch series that I sent review for 8 hours after it was
>     > posted to the list and I got told "Oh, I merged that hours ago,
>     > patches welcome."
> 
>     I can. I guess Jason got a bit carried away by the Vulkan 1.1
>     excitement.
> 
> 
> Perhaps.  :-)  I do think that being there day-1 is important.

The code was there on day 1 anyway. If being available in Git ASAP is
that important (not sure why though), it can be made available in a
repository other than the main shared one.


> If nothing else, it shows the rest of the graphics community (who already
> fears the concept of open-source) that working in the open isn't going
> to cramp their style.

It wasn't following the normal Mesa development process, so I'm not sure
it's really useful for showing anything about that to anyone.


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