On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote:
> On 06.08.2016 15:23, Marek Olšák wrote:
>
>> I'd recommend moving the cairo rendering code into Mesa and have Mesa
>> implement and export some kind of a low-level cairo library.
>
> That would essentially create a circular dependency - and cairo's
> surface backend API is also private.
>
>> Please note that Gallium doesn't support Intel GPUs, which may be a
>> significant part of your user base.
>
> Not so much the intended userbase, but myself - working on an notebook
> w/ i915.
>
> Is there any special reason why gallium doesnt support Intel GPUs
> (besides that maybe just nobody cared yet) ?

The lack of interest from Intel is the main reason. There are some
Gallium drivers for Intel, but one of them is for ancient hardware and
the other one was never intended to be a real driver.

Marek
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