Re: Mesa status ?

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot%wolfpond.org@localhost>]

Hi,

iMil wrote:
>
> While setting up various NetBSD workstations I realized that Mesa status
> is a bit... confusing.
[...]
> I have some questions before putting my hands on those: not being really
> familiar with the whole Mesa/dri/drm/Xorg infrastructure, is there a
> strong reason other than lack of manpower why the most "recent" version we
> provide is 7.8.2?
 >
> wip/Mesa is split up in many sub-packages, is this something we want? Is
> anybody still working on this? Last update was 2 years ago.
>
> Any insight about this whole 3D world would be very much appreciated.

I've recently started to update many X11 packages; my goal here is to be 
able to someday run a KMS based xf86-video-intel driver and use Xorg on 
recent hardware.
In the course of this action I've done some work to update Mesa to 8.0.2 
locally; it can't be used as-is with the current modular-xorg stack and 
I believe the NetBSD ones as well.

On the other hand, the 7.8.2 version in wip/ works perfectly with what 
we have in pkgsrc right now.

I'd like to see 7.8.2 moved to pkgsrc and 7.4.4 removed; we could then 
work on putting 8.0.2 and newer versions in pkgsrc-wip and updating the 
rest of the x11 packages.
The most pressing needs are x11/xproto (see PR #45465) and 
modular-xorg-server (a newer version is available in wip/)

I don't understand the need to create sub-packages either; having one 
big MesaLib one similar to upstream would prevent unnecessary work IMHO.

-- 
Francois Tigeot

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