That only means distributions doesn't support 3D acceleration for Unichrome cards now. Every DRI1 driver has been dropped before Mesa 8.0 got out. James Simmons did port the DRM driver to work with DRI2, but there is no Mesa driver to take advantage of it yet. More basic usage is still supported and doesn't seem like it will be dropped anytime soon. There is ongoing work on new features, like power management, coming from the openchrome devs (mostly from Simmons). So I wouldn't worry about any other code drops. Also, the old Mesa driver was in a poor state, and no one maintained it, so it didn't worked very well (at least on my box), and wasn't really compatible with the new DRM driver anyway.
Solutions: - use the best software rasterizer you can; - begin work for a new Mesa driver or pay someone to do that; - or just wait until James Simmons ends with his current work, I think he had some plans to work in a Mesa driver using Gallium3D at some time. But it will take some time. The two latter requires patience. 2012/11/18 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]> > Hello, > > only now I've noticed that mesa 8.0 does not include unichrome GL support, > and I > think that this means that distiributions will stop supporting unichrome > cards. > > What are the solutions ahead, for openchrome GL users? > > Regards, > Lluís. > _______________________________________________ > Openchrome-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users > Main page: http://www.openchrome.org > Wiki: http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/TOC >
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