Dave Airlie wrote: > Stephane wrote: >> Hi Brian, >> >> It seems like people are mostly concerned about gallium stability >> right now. How stable wioll the interfaces be in the future ? Maybe if >> you could tell us, that'd help others jump in.
The gallium interfaces won't change radically, but we are looking at some changes. In particular, the winsys stuff is kind of complicated and we're hoping to simplify and re-organize it somewhat. "Winsys" basically includes all the "stuff" needed to interface a portable gallium driver into the non-portable window system and OS which hosts it. The dividing lines, modularity and terminology(!) can be improved in that area. Jakob Bornecrantz may be commiting some changes soon. Beyond that, there'll probably always be some evolutionary changes to the gallium interfaces. It'll have to evolve just has Mesa has had to evolve since we can't predict future needs. None of this should stop anyone from digging into gallium though. > Even when it might make it to master, is it planned to land in master.. > > I would assume Mesa 8.0 or something. Gallium might ultimately wind up in its own repository as a stand-alone project. Afterall, Gallium drivers could be used by APIs other than OpenGL. Before then though, the gallium branch could be merged into Mesa master (if not git-merged, simply copied over). There's been a bit of code divergence in core Mesa between master and gallium-0.1 which will need attention (nothing too serious though). When either of those things happens a Mesa 8.0 release would probably be appropriate. I haven't thought about a time frame yet, but the end of the year might be a good goal. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
