On 06/14/2012 01:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > Fun and games building my new xorg. In particular, because I > enable *all* the Mesa drivers I had to stick to libdrm-2.4.33 > otherwise the Mesa nouveau stuff fails to build (Armin already noted > this). > > Unfortunately, this machine runs ati (and the default options in the > Mesa build in the book to restrict the gallium drivers are useless > for r600 owners, but that's not my issue here). > > I've been carrying a local patch (from debian - from freedesktop bug > 47266) to fix the recent cairo rendering bug on the radeon. The new > xf86-video-ati release (6.14.5) is now out and includes most of the > patch. Unfortunately, it needs libdrm>= 2.4.35 (and configure > continued without that, but make blew up with an unknown type name). > > Since there is no sign of a Mesa 8.1 or later release at the > moment, perhaps I should commit that patch for the radeon driver ?
Sure, go ahead. Mesa 8.1 is still too far away (I've tried git checkout and it is in good state for now). > And maybe expand the treatment of gallium drivers in MesaLib - I'm > guessing that avoiding the r300 and r600 gallium drivers is there to > avoid needing llvm ? > > ĸen Correct. I enabled all drivers by default once, but someone has spoken on mailing lists and said how llvm is not required and it should not be enabled by default. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
