On 6/16/21 1:16 PM, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:46 PM Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com> wrote:
On 6/16/21 11:03 AM, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
I'm bringing this up via e-mail so it gets a wider audience. Given how will
crocus is working at this point, is like to propose we hold off for about three
more releases before we drop classic. This next release, 21.2, we'll have
crocus as an option with i965 as the default. There will also be a
-Dprefer-crocus meson options so distros or individuals can attempt to flip it
on. The release after that, 21.3, we'll keep i965 in the tree but have crocus
be the default (assuming things are going well.) Some time in 2022, probably
after the 22.2 release or so, we'll delete classic.
Why wait so long? Well, it just landed and we don't have a Cherryview story yet
so I'm hesitant to make it the default too quickly. Even if it were the default
in 21.2, it's already too late, likely, to hit the fall 2021 distro release
cycle. If we flip it to the default before the end of the year, that'll get
crocus into spring distros. This is good because 22.04 is an Ubuntu LTS release
and I think they'd rather bump crocus versions to fix bugs than backport on top
of i965. But that's really fort Ubuntu to decide. In any case, we won't see
broad-spread usage and the flood of bug reports until next spring so we may
want to wait until then to stay deleting code.
If we wanted to accelerate things, one option, once we're ready, would be to
ask the person who manages the oibaf PPA to switch to crocus early. That may
get some early adopters on board.
Thoughts?
I though the idea was to put everything in a classic branch and let distros run
"classic" hardware from that. What happens after 3 releases does i965 still go
to the classic branch with the other classic drivers? If so is it really worth waiting
just because Ubuntu might have to back-port a bug fix?
Yeah, that was the idea. However, with crocus in good shape and Emma
Anholt working on i915g, it may be that the actual answer is we just
throw away the classic drivers and the only thing you really need the
old branch for is r200 and ancient nouveau.
Fair enough. I don't really have any stake in these drivers, but I am
eager to get to work on clean ups once we drop the classic drivers. I
would be disappointed if we were forced to wait another year just to
have the Intel drivers kept in the classic branch anyway. Going on past
experience we can pretty much guarantee that someone will at least ask
we keep them. Anyway up to you guys I guess.
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