On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 21:25 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > On 01.12.2016 15:32, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:33:44 +0000 Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Control: owner -1 tjaalton@debian.org > >> > >> On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 09:46 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > >>> 24.01.2016, 20:34, Luca Boccassi kirjoitti: > >>>> * Package name : libglvnd > >>>> Version : 0~20160122 > >>>> Upstream Author : NVIDIA Corporation > >>>> * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd > >>>> * License : MIT > >>>> Programming Lang: C > >>>> Description : Vendor-neutral OpenGL dispatch layer > >>>> > >>>> libglvnd is a Vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API > >>>> calls between multiple vendors on a per-screen basis. > >>>> Currently, only the GLX window-system API and OpenGL are supported, but > >>>> in the future this library may support EGL and OpenGL ES as well. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I am one of the pkg-nvidia maintainers, and we would like to use this > >>>> ITP to start a discussion about packaging libglvnd with the maintainers > >>>> of Mesa, X and fglrx. > >>>> > >>>> As you might have read news about, NVIDIA has been working on an open > >>>> source (MIT-like license) vendor-neutral dispatch layer for OpenGL. They > >>>> have now declared it stable, and their proprietary graphics driver > >>>> started using it in version 361 [1]. > >>>> > >>>> It has been reported that AMD is interested in supporting this library > >>>> too [2]. > >>>> > >>>> Finally, following a discussion on the upstream Mesa mailing list [3], > >>>> it has been reported that work is in progress in Mesa too to support > >>>> this library [4]. > >>>> > >>>> Our proposal would be to wait to upload this package until a version of > >>>> Mesa that can make use of it is released. Then, as a a possible example, > >>>> we could upload both to Debian experimental, and at the same time switch > >>>> the proprietary Nvidia drivers to use it, and see how it works. When > >>>> fglrx gets there too, we should then be able to stop using > >>>> glx-alternatives-* packages. > >>>> > >>>> My proposal for the packaging itself can be found on pkg-nvidia's git > >>>> [5]. Given upstream doesn't seem to do release tagging, I'm using the > >>>> 0~<LAST-COMMIT-DATE> format. I split each .so in an individual binary > >>>> and -dbg package, called *-glvnd[-dbg], plus a common libglvnd-dev. > >>>> Figuring out precisely the licensing was the fun part, as the code is a > >>>> mixture of Expat, MIT-like, BSD 1-clause and 3-clause, GPL3 and > >>>> GNU-permissive :-) > >>>> > >>>> Comments? Opinions? ACKs/NACKs? > >>> > >>> packaging available at > >>> > >>> git://git.debian.org/pkg-xorg/lib/libglvnd.git > >>> > >>> but since it hasn't been of any use there was no ITP filed, so thanks > >>> for that :) > >>> > >>> it's not final of course, tests fail and there are probably other issues > >>> too.. > > > > Hi Timo, > > > > Any news on uploading this to Stretch? > > > > I think upstream Mesa has some initial support merged: > > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-May/116346.html > > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/glx/glxglvnd.c > > Yes, libglvnd had some packaging issues which I think are now solved in > git. I'll probably upload it to experimental soon. Great news, thank you for taking care of it! Once it's up in experimental we'll work on it from the nvidia-driver side. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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