[Dri-devel] Re: Planning to merge vtx-0-2-branch soon

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

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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