[Buildroot] [PATCH] mesa3d: add intel gallium driver support

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Mar 11 11:38:09 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> writes:

 > On 11/03/16 08:09, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >> Hi,
 >> 
 >> > To sum up: Yes, it is possible to build a i915 gallium driver in mesa3d,
 >> > but who needs it? That's the reason I never implemented a Config.in
 >> > option for it, but it will not hurt having one ;)
 >> 
 >> Ok, that was more of less also my understanding. Gustavoz, what do you
 >> need the gallium driver for?

 > "DRI drivers need X.org" -> wayland, plus libgtk3 with it as backend.
 > All that libepoxy effort would go to /dev/null otherwise.
 > Regards.

I actually think the comment is wrong. Googling around for wayland /
mesa / intel seems to show a bunch of references to people using dri
drivers and not gallium:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2011-February/000702.html
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-August/004832.html
https://gist.github.com/tmpvar/6218568

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 



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