[Mesa-maintainers] Dealing with conflicting files [Re: Downstream patches and package recipes

[Andreas Boll]

2017-02-23 18:33 GMT+01:00 Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>:
> On 23 February 2017 at 13:13, Andreas Boll <andreas.boll.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> gallium softpipe works without llvm.  On OpenBSD we only build softpipe
>>> and not classic swrast on all archs including some such as hppa that are
>>> unlikely to ever get a llvm backend.
>>
>> Good point. Will switch to softpipe on the remaining architectures.
> <offtopic>
> IIRC there were some comments that swrast performs ~4x better than
> softpipe, even if it has less features than the latter.
> </offtopic>

And MrCooper mentioned this on #debian-x:
  FWIW, softpipe is meant to be a reference implementation of a
Gallium driver, it's
  not meant to be used for real world stuff

So, I'll wait with switching to softpipe.

Thanks,
Andreas

>
> Thanks for the deprecation warnings suggestion - I'll add them as we get closer.
> -Emil