Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > [ CCing Daniel Borca who used to work on 3dfx support in Mesa and > libglide, not sure though if he is around or interested anymore. ] > > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:25:02 -0700, Brian Paul wrote: >> 3. I'm tempted to remove some old Mesa drivers such as glide, tdfx, >> allegro, ggi, dri/mga, dri/mach64. Maybe more. Any objections? > > Could the drivers for actual hardware (namely glide, tdfx, dri/mga > and dri/mach64) be exempted from removal? I at least still have cards > for those, not sure though how many users might be out there, but > whenever libglide has broken in Debian, I tend to receive bug reports, > so I'd assume there's still some. And it always saddens me a bit when > hardware support gets dropped in projects.
I have/had no idea if the tdfx, glide, mga or mach64 drivers function anymore. If someone is actively using or testing the drivers I guess we could keep them, but I'd rather not otherwise. > Out of curiousity, are those burdersome to deal with, or hindering > further imrpovements or development in other areas? Anything major > that needs to be done to them? I can perfectly understand the desire > to remove legacy stuff that might block or take much of your time, > keeping them would still be appreciated. I also fear I have my hands > full already with lots of stuff, so cannot offer much of help, at > least right now. Though, I should finally cleanup and commit upstream > some of the libglide patches I have in Debian. When I change core things in Mesa (like the texformat overhaul last fall) I wonder if the lesser-used drivers still function since I don't test them. In any case, older versions of Mesa with the drivers in question won't go away so people can use those if needed. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
