Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:35:09 -0400
> Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> Can you explain what "remove legacy DRI support" means? It seems like
>> what's in pkgsrc should least work with various vintages of X servers
>> on various platforms. If this is just loss of an older acceleration
>> style, that's one thing. But if it means you can't reasonably run
>> signficant programs unless you have a new-style xserver, that seems not
>> ok.
>
> Sure. First of all, This affects only X11_TYPE=modular users.
> X11_TYPE=native (the default) users will continue to use their
> X11 /usr/X11R{6,7} and will not see these changes. Your regular Xlib
> applications will continue to work.
>
> What goes away, for X11_TYPE=modular users, is:
>
> - XAA driver support (replaced by EXA/UXA/SNA)
> - DRI1 direct rendering on NetBSD 6.x x86, meaning fallback to indirect
> or software rendering. (From my understanding this only worked well
> on a few older machines, pre intel's sandy bridge platform.)
That sounds ok to me, then.
(Note that X11_TYPE=modular is the default for netbsd-5 and earlier.)
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