On 2/14/08, Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > José Fonseca wrote: > > I'll dedicate some time now to reorganize gallium's code & build process. > This is > > stuff which has been discussed internally at TG several times, but this > time I > > want to get it done. > > > > My objectives are: > > - leaner and more easy to understand/navigate source tree > > - reduce (or even eliminate) merges between private branches of the > common gallium parts > > - help keep the gallium tree portable, by keeping things separate. > > > > My plan is: > > > > 1. Physically separate gallium source code from mesa code. This will be the > > final layout: > > > > - src/mesa > > - src/gallium > > - state_tracker > > - ogl > > - ... > > > I think the one thing I'd say is that the GL state tracker is really a > part of Mesa -- it's effectively a Mesa driver which targets the Gallium > interfaces rather than some piece of hardware. > > Given that the gallium interface is fairly water-tight (ie. you can't > reach round it to some driver internals) compared to the Mesa driver > interface which is basically "just include all the mesa internal > headers", I think it will become clear if you try and do this that the > state_tracker will sit pretty uncomfortably anywhere other than inside > mesa...
So src/mesa/driver/state_tracker then? > I think further if you consider future 'state trackers', most of them > won't really belong inside a gallium tree either. For instance if we > did a GL3 implementation that targeted Gallium as its driver interface, > there would not really be any distinct state tracker component - you'd > just have the OpenGL3 core emitting Gallium calls directly. > > I think we'll end up with things like the Mesa state tracker where we're > integrating with existing environments - mesa being the prototype. > > In general these things are best considered as clients of Gallium, > rather than parts of Gallium itself. My perspective was that gallium implements several APIs, and Mesa is an implementation detail of one of them. Jose ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
