Re: mesa: Changes to 'debian-unstable'
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:30 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:45:04AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 03:10 +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
> > >
> > > commit 76556f82646d4a0db15a06e1392e24a6457b1642
> > > Author: David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
> > > Date: Thu Oct 4 22:49:27 2007 -0400
> > >
> > > * Disable building i915tex.
> > > It was previously only built on x86 and amd64.
> >
> > Because the hardware only physically works with those.
> >
> > > It was never
> > > production-ready and relies on a kernel interface that never went
> > > upstream.
> >
> > Define 'production ready' - several customers of ours have it in
> > production. It just requires a suitable drm snapshot.
>
> Production-ready may or may not be true (I was told it wasn't really a
> shippable driver by krh) but what I was told is that the kernel interface
> never went in upstream, which means we're not shipping it in Debian,
The same is true for a couple of other drivers in libgl1-mesa-dri.
> and that airlied is planning to break that interface fairly soon with (I
> believe) superioctl. I don't understand the details, but my impression from
> listening to the discussion was that i915tex would be broken very soon and
> probably not fixed, and that it wasn't really working for us anyway.
Again, it's just a matter of a suitable drm snapshot.
Please re-enable i915tex or disable the other drivers with similar or
worse issues as well.
Thanks,
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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