Hi Duncan, On 17 September 2017 at 09:04, Duncan Roe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:29:19AM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote: >> From: Emil Velikov <[email protected]> > ... >> >> Takanari, Duncan, >> AFAICT the Renesas devices that you're using have an ImgTec IP inside >> them. Please check with Renesas and/or ImgTec, as one can build their >> driver as a Mesa component. >> >> As such you should be able to utilise the EGL/Wayland, EGL/Android and >> other features without having to write/maintain wrapper shims. > > Hi Emil, > > The only reason I'm involved is that I package wayland-egl for SBo. > > SlackBuilds.org (SBo) provide additional packages ready to install on a system > running the Slackware Linux distribution. > > I first packaged wayland-egl when it showed up as a dependency of VLC built > with > all optional dependencies (and optional dependencies of dependencies ...). As > such, I have no idea when or even if wayland-egl gets used or how I would set > about testing whether a new release has an adverse effect on VLC. > Right, I've saw that and was worried how you tested the codepaths. AFAICT there's no backend driver or Mesa in SBo. That's orthogonal topic, so let's not go there.
> Your email contains the checked-in Mesa code as of rev 17.1.9 / 17.2.0. > The commit mentions the exact commit SHA1, so Mesa versions do not anything extra ;-) > If I update my wayland-egl branch to this code and make a new Slackbuild, is > that likely to break anything? > Not much more than it already is ;-) > I've made the updates locally, and see that it still builds > libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0. Shouldn't there be a version bump? > There is no difference in the sources or binary. Thus a version bump is a very bad idea. There's an open question (+ lots of data) on the version as listed in the .pc file. See patch 2/9 [1] > From checking header files it does seem to me that the layout of struct > wl_egl_window is indeed opaque to the outside world, but all the same wouldn't > it be better to be able to see what version of the library one had installed? > Why? Can you please elaborate. Thanks Emil > Cheers ... Duncan. [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-September/035021.html _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
