<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Rob Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robdclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">robdclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Emil Velikov <<a href="mailto:emil.l.velikov@gmail.com">emil.l.velikov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">> On 6 December 2016 at 03:16, Edward O'Callaghan<br>
> <<a href="mailto:funfunctor@folklore1984.net">funfunctor@folklore1984.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> This patch is to potentially remove ourself from the maintaince<br>
>> burden of the ilo driver that appears to now be essentially<br>
>> unmaintained?<br>
>><br>
>> I am not sure of our policy here or if there are too many<br>
>> users so this patch is really only to gauge a response of<br>
>> how folks feel?<br>
>><br>
> Surely you want to CC the core/sole developer of the driver when<br>
> considering its removal.<br>
> Maybe mailman was "nice" and hid his email in the header ;-)<br>
><br>
> Either way adding Chia-I Wu to the list.<br>
><br>
> -Emil<br>
> P.S. Not sure/sold how much of an actual burden the driver is, yet I<br>
> don't make serious gallium infra changes.<br>
<br>
</span>really hasn't been a problem for me..<br>
<br>
That said, it would be nice if someday someone wired this up to use<br>
glsl_to_nir path in gallium and re-used i965's nir backend. I think<br>
that would make ilo somewhat more interesting..<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We had a bit of a chat about this on IRC and what I told Ilia there was that the more interesting thing to do, if someone really wanted to do Intel on gallium, would probably be to build a new driver based on ISL, blorp, the i965 compiler, NIR, and genxml. We've made a pretty good driver-building toolbox. Having an almost unmaintained driver that has it's own hand-rolled and inferrior compiler, surface layout, etc. isn't doing much good. <br></div></div><br></div></div>