Upstream is expecting to release mesa 9.1 soon. Do you plan to send the patches upstream for review and merging?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117417 Title: mesa needs to use shared libgallium and libdricore in quantal Status in “mesa” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “mesa-lts-quantal” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “mesa” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “mesa-lts-quantal” source package in Precise: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] * Right now in quantal the mesa package links a static copy of libgallium and libdricore into every driver, resulting in an enormous size. * This does not fit on the precise LTS cd, so a sru has been made for mesa-lts-quantal where 2 additional patches have been enabled to re-enable the patches to build libgallium and libdricore shared. * Currently this is carried as a delta for mesa-lts-quantal vs mesa, but the savings make sense for normal quantal too, else every time mesa-lts-quantal gets updated those patches have to be re-applied again. [Test Case] * Quite easy to check, ls -l /usr/lib/*/dri/ and check for size, and whether they're linked against libgallium and libdricore. * It should be around 11 mb, but currently is around 36 mb or more. * Additional care has to be taken that nothing will break, so manually trying a simple opengl program on llvmpipe, i915, radeon and nouveau is recommended. The stderr output from "LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo" is good enough for this purpose, and that will tell you if the driver succesfully loaded or not. I can verify this on my laptops easily for those drivers. [Regression Potential] * mesa-lts-quantal and the mesa package from raring already have this change, so the chance of regressions is not deemed to be high. mesa-lts-quantal is a repackaging of the current package in quantal for precise. * As part of the verification process, piglit will be run and watched for regressions. * Any failure will most likely manifest itself by failing to load the dri driver, so expected failure mode is compiz failing to start. [Other Info] * Will also result in a new upload of mesa-lts-quantal to precise, for MRE version bump to 9.0.2, and to stay in sync to quantal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1117417/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
