'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 05/12/11 06:09 did gyre and gimble: > Hi! > > 1. nouveau > > I propose to move nouveau DRI drivers from libdri-drivers-experimental > to libdri-drivers. > > Fedora moved them out of -experimental in last January, Ubuntu in last > June, OpenSUSE in July (though OpenSUSE doesn't have the legacy > nouveau_vieux DRI driver at all), and Debian a week ago. > > I've been running with it for the last week or so with no problems on my > card. > > WDYT?
Seems sensible. I've not got any NV h/w but this seems like the Right Thing to Do(tm). > 2. swrastg > > It seems we have both swrast_dri.so and swrastg_dri.so in libdri-drivers > package. > > swrast_dri.so is the traditional SW rasterizer used when there is no HW > support. > > swrastg_dri.so is the Gallium3d-based rasterizer which is considerably > faster. > > However, actually only swrast_dri.so is used, so should we: > 1) switch to swrastg, drop swrast (Fedora in Nov 2010) > 2) keep it as is, unused (~4 MB) > 3) move swrastg to libdri-drivers-experimental (Ubuntu in Jun 2010, > Debian a week ago) which nouveau is probably moving out of > 4) drop swrastg completely for now (seemingly OpenSUSE) On balance, I ultimately prefer 3 with your xserver patch, Either that or 1. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
