Re: [Mesa-dev] forking shared intel directory?

2013-06-26 Thread Chad Versace
On 06/21/2013 10:09 PM, Kenneth Graunke wrote: On 06/21/2013 11:29 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: Long ago, when porting FBO and memory management support to i965, I merged a bunch of code between the i915 and i965 drivers and put it in the intel directory. I think it served us well for a long time,

[Mesa-dev] forking shared intel directory?

2013-06-21 Thread Eric Anholt
Long ago, when porting FBO and memory management support to i965, I merged a bunch of code between the i915 and i965 drivers and put it in the intel directory. I think it served us well for a long time, as both drivers got improvements from shared work on that code. But since then, we've talked

Re: [Mesa-dev] forking shared intel directory?

2013-06-21 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net wrote: Long ago, when porting FBO and memory management support to i965, I merged a bunch of code between the i915 and i965 drivers and put it in the intel directory. I think it served us well for a long time, as both drivers got

Re: [Mesa-dev] forking shared intel directory?

2013-06-21 Thread Kenneth Graunke
On 06/21/2013 01:25 PM, Patrick Baggett wrote: I'm not a developer, but I like to keep up with the drivers that I have hardware for. Please take my opinions with a grain of salt. When you say you break i915 more than you improve it, do you mean to say that it is difficult to improve !i915

Re: [Mesa-dev] forking shared intel directory?

2013-06-21 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Kenneth Graunke kenn...@whitecape.orgwrote: On 06/21/2013 01:25 PM, Patrick Baggett wrote: I'm not a developer, but I like to keep up with the drivers that I have hardware for. Please take my opinions with a grain of salt. When you say you break i915 more

Re: [Mesa-dev] forking shared intel directory?

2013-06-21 Thread Patrick Baggett
The latter is true as well. Unfortunately, community work is hampered by the fact that Intel hasn't released public documentation for i915 class hardware. From time to time we've tried to find and motivate the right people to make that happen, but it hasn't yet. Most people in the

Re: [Mesa-dev] forking shared intel directory?

2013-06-21 Thread Kenneth Graunke
On 06/21/2013 11:29 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: Long ago, when porting FBO and memory management support to i965, I merged a bunch of code between the i915 and i965 drivers and put it in the intel directory. I think it served us well for a long time, as both drivers got improvements from shared work