On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:32:32 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> > wrote:
> > It's a numbers game. How many contributors and testers will I lose or gain > > compared to the hours of work spent? Until the server is a lot easier to > > build from scratch, I think the numbers aren't in my favour yet. > > I agree with this sentiment for video drivers right now as well. I think that's where we all are at present; we want to make things easier for everyone, and it's not obvious that merging the X bits needed to build a server is the best way to make this happen today. The other issue briefly touched on is the mesa/libdrm situation. Right now, libdrm gets released at the drop of a hat when some driver needs a new interface or bug fix. That's bee tremendously useful, but it often means that mesa and the video drivers are tied to a very new libdrm release, so people testing video drivers often need a new libdrm *and* a new mesa. Merging the video drivers into the server means we'd now end up forcing people to upgrade libdrm and mesa to build the server. Let's see what we think in a few months when we're starting to do planning for 1.10; we'll have had some experience with the merged protocol headers by that point (I hope), perhaps that's all we need to do? -- keith.pack...@intel.com
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