How should this affect DRI 3d drivers? According to the documenation:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIintro.html
it says "Most DRI 3D drivers today are based on Mesa". How so?
Is it that the 3d drivers (_dri.so's) use the Mesa Library to to
catch OpenGL calls and map them onto hardware events? I know Mesa does
software rendering but I'm just not grasping exactly what Mesa's role is
for when no software rendering is used.
And last, should I then test again the IGP patch with the latest merge to
see if I notice any significant changes with the new Mesa merge?
This should probably go in a another e-mail thread but what sort of more
tests are left before merging IGP patch into DRI cvs tree?
Luis
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > I'm going to merge the newmesa branch to the trunk in a few moments.
> >
> > I've giving people a heads up that I'm going to delete the xc/extras/Mesa
> > directory and insist on people checking out a copy of Mesa's newtree and
> > people setting that in their xc/config/cf/host.def file to point to their
> > checked out copy.
> >
> > I think it's pointless trying to keep merging back and forth now once this
> > merge is complete.
> >
> > Does anyone disagree ?
> >
> > We'll probably need to update the build instructions on the web pages too.
> > Jose ??
>
>
> It's probably worth pointing out that in addition to a major rearrangment of
> the DRI build process, this merge effectively pulls in Mesa 5.x, which
> includes a lot of new code, and of particular relevence a rewrite of the
> mesa/tnl module for handling vertex data.
>
> So, it's probably worthwhile for everybody to get up to speed on this new code
> as soon as possible (once the merge has settled down, etc). There are bound
> to be some latent bugs in there...
>
> Keith
>
>
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