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Re: mesa: Changes to 'debian-experimental'



On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 18:51 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi Michel,
> 
> thanks for keeping an eye on the commits.
> 
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> (20/06/2011):
> > This is wrong. r300g works fine without LLVM. The reason for the
> > dependency is that without LLVM, Gallium's software vertex processing is
> > very slow. But this only affects integrated GPUs without vertex shaders,
> > which are only available for x86 CPUs.
> 
> AFAICT, configure disagrees. But it's strange-ish anyway, so it might
> just need some targeted patching.
> 
> > > commit 7d332507bbffa1fdb59723808ef39b9e50983e16
> > > Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
> > > Date:   Sun Jun 19 15:37:18 2011 +0200
> > > 
> > >     Stop building i915g at all.
> > >     
> > >     It's apparently never going to be a suitable replacement for i915c.
> > 

It's also worth noting that even without shipping i915g_dri it might be
worth building i915g to get OpenVG support - egl_dri2 can load the
classic driver for GLES support, but only the gallium pipe drivers
support OpenVG.

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