[Mageia-dev] [RFC] nouveau, swrastg, libdri-drivers-experimental

Mon Dec 5 10:01:40 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 05/12/11 06:09 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hi!
+> 
+> 1. nouveau
+> 
+> I propose to move nouveau DRI drivers from libdri-drivers-experimental
+> to libdri-drivers.
+> 
+> Fedora moved them out of -experimental in last January, Ubuntu in last
+> June, OpenSUSE in July (though OpenSUSE doesn't have the legacy
+> nouveau_vieux DRI driver at all), and Debian a week ago.
+> 
+> I've been running with it for the last week or so with no problems on my
+> card.
+> 
+> WDYT?
+
+Seems sensible. I've not got any NV h/w but this seems like the Right
+Thing to Do(tm).
+
+> 2. swrastg
+> 
+> It seems we have both swrast_dri.so and swrastg_dri.so in libdri-drivers
+> package.
+> 
+> swrast_dri.so is the traditional SW rasterizer used when there is no HW
+> support.
+> 
+> swrastg_dri.so is the Gallium3d-based rasterizer which is considerably
+> faster.
+> 
+> However, actually only swrast_dri.so is used, so should we:
+> 1) switch to swrastg, drop swrast (Fedora in Nov 2010)
+> 2) keep it as is, unused (~4 MB)
+> 3) move swrastg to libdri-drivers-experimental (Ubuntu in Jun 2010,
+>    Debian a week ago) which nouveau is probably moving out of
+> 4) drop swrastg completely for now (seemingly OpenSUSE)
+
+On balance, I ultimately prefer 3 with your xserver patch, Either that or 1.
+
+Col
+
+
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