X.Org Foundation - Release Wranglers Call - 3rd March - Minutes

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 21:18, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Howard Greenwell wrote:
> 
> >John says seems to be a lot of DRI support sources around. Egbert says 
> >official one is now on freedesktop. John says kernel people thing different 
> >- should be the bitkeeper implementation, and divergence. Jim suggested 
> >Alan Cox is the right person to speak with.
> 
> Alan is wrong.  DRI is not Linux specific, so maintaining the DRM 
> in the Linux kernel is Linux specific.  Not that I'm opposed to 
> that mind you, but the DRI Project's own goals are not to be 
> Linux specific, and so their repository is the official 
> repository despite what Linux kernel hackers might like to 
> believe.
> 
> If anyone is to be declaring an alternate CVS repository as "the 
> official DRM", it would seem to me that the DRI project should be 
> the people to decide that.

Absolutely. Also, what's wrong with just asking on the dri-devel and/or
mesa3d-dev mailing lists (both @lists.sf.net) about DRI/Mesa issues?
*shrug*


> I think it would also be a good idea to run some OpenGL tests and 
> stress DRI/Mesa.  Forgot to mention that on the call.  I'm not 
> sure what would be best for that, perhaps viewperf?

There's also glean (http://glean.sourceforge.net/).


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