On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:22, Keith Whitwell wrote:
>
> We could set up the DRI tree to have *some* version of Mesa plus drivers
> installed actually in the tree. One problem with this is it possibly extends
> the chain to the user - Mesa->DRI->Xfree86->Distro->user... (Actually Mesa
> updates have to go through this route already) Ideally I'd like to see
> something closer to Mesa->Distro->user, allowing driver updates to make it
> into general users hands a lot quicker. We do have snapshots, but the distros
> are still the main way of getting code into users hands, and we should try &
> streamline that path.
Agreed.
> It's necessary to ask 'what is the DRI tree for?' - what are we still
> developing there?
[...]
> - libGL.so
Why not move this to Mesa as well? A single libGL which works with most
things you can think of throwing it at would be great I think.
> - The DRI protocol.
> - The dri & glx XFree86 modules
> - The DRI-aware parts of the DDX drivers.
- The DRM
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