[arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main
Hi, Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] . This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c . The plan is to support those older drivers through a new mesa LTS version that can be installed alongside normal mesa. Archlinux team will have to decide whether to add a mesa-lts package to keep supporting that hardware or just drop official support for them and hope some users will support them through aur. Atm it looks like mesa 22.0 will be the first stable version without support for this hardware, so there is still time to prepare for this. Lone_Wolf [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/10153
On 12/5/21 6:43 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote:
Hi,
Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] .
This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c .
The plan is to support those older drivers through a new mesa LTS version that can be installed alongside normal mesa.
Archlinux team will have to decide whether to add a mesa-lts package to keep supporting that hardware or just drop official support for them and hope some users will support them through aur.
Linux runs on a lot of old boxes. Dropping hardware support is a bad idea. Either continuing hardware support though Mesa or Arch packaging Mesa-LTS is the correct approach. Having someone wanting to try Arch load it an it fails - expecting them to have also read all about AUR and split functionality is unrealistic. Unless there is a clear burden on the packages that justifies dropping hardware support - keep it. (and the burden would need to be significant, not some "white-glove" test of -- I have to add a new compile option... let's drop it) Just my $.02. Arch generally does the right thing, so I suspect it will here as well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
Dropping hardware support is a bad idea.
Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit, though, for example i686?
On 12/5/21 8:09 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
Dropping hardware support is a bad idea.
Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit, though, for example i686?
Agreed, but for x86_64, it would be beneficial to preserve the support. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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