[haiku-development] Re: RFC: Deep thoughts on Mesa / 3D Rendering / DRI2

  • From: Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:14:03 +0100

2011/12/20 Alexander von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I do have one alternative solution, I have a patch below that allows us
> to build Mesa using their build system:
> http://pub.haikufire.com/mesa/haiku-mesa-patch1.5.diff

Sure one can build a standalone mesa and have an optional dev package for it.

>
> Mesa already mentioned they were interested in Haiku support patches
> as long as they weren't a ton of work.  Given the fact that we
> provide our own Mesa driver (aka kits/opengl) building Mesa external to
> the tree and pushing the above upstream may be a good way to ensure
> this doesn't happen again.

If this helps a bit with integrating major API change like the one in
7.5, why not.

Bye,
Jérôme

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