Re: mesa: Changes to 'debian-unstable'
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:05:19PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> 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.
Ok, done. I didn't realize it was useful to you or anyone else at this point. Sorry about that.
- David Nusinow
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