On 5/19/05, Nicolai Haehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2005 09:20, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > > > > Hi Aapo, Ben, Jerome, Nicolai: > > > > > > I recently checked fresh code from CVS and was pleasantly surprised > > > to see that all Quake3 levels that were broken are now perfect - in fact > > > I cannot find anything that is amiss ! > > > > > > Do you think it would be a good idea to tag the current code and make > > > a snapshot ? > > Sure, anytime :) > > > So have you guys given any consideration to moving the r300 driver into > > mesa proper? CVS access shouldn't be a problem, fwiw... > > There are two main points that have stopped me from pushing for the > inclusion of the driver into Mesa proper: > > 1. Kernel-level security holes > We should take care of full command-stream verification before moving the > driver into Mesa CVS. It's easy to say "We can do that later", but if we > say that it's likely that it won't be done in a long time. > > 2. DRM binary compatibility > We still don't know the meaning of many of the registers. Some registers are > labelled "dangerous" which means we might have to do some more checks in > the kernel to make sure user processes can't do harmful stuff. This means > that we might have to *remove* some of the cmdbuf commands that exist today > in the future. > > If the others believe moving r300 to Mesa is a good idea, then I'll do some > auditing to the DRM code. Once I (or somebody else) has done this, I'm okay > with moving the driver as long as we don't enforce DRM binary compatibility > yet. > > cu, > Nicolai >
true, the drm may need to live on it's own branch for a bit. But I think the 3d driver could be added to mesa. it can live in cvs until we feel it is ready to be part of a stable release. Being part of mesa cvs means we'll always be in sync with the latest mesa changes and get nightly snapshots which will add additional testers for better or worse. Alex ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
