On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Chia-I Wu <olva...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Chia-I Wu <olva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> Per the discussion, i965g is confusing and misleading. Instead of >> preventing the confusions via >> >> --with-gallium-drivers=i965g-unofficial or >> --with-gallium-drivers=experimental-i965g, >> >> which kind of makes i965g a second-class citizen, I think it is better >> to rename it. Then whenever one sees i965, be it on mailing list or >> in a commit message, we know it refers to the official driver that >> Intel supports. >> >> Let's say the new name is iFoo. The gallium driver will be enabled >> via --with-gallium-drivers=iFoo, and the DRI driver will be named >> iFoo_dri.so. Users will need to rename it to use it, and I hope this >> extra step will avoid the confusions. >> >> I'd like to call it igen, so that I do not need to reflow the code >> after running sed -i 's/i965/igen/g'. But I am pretty bad at naming. >> If this approach or the name is frowned upon, please let me know. > To avoid false advertising, I will call the new driver ilo. It could > mean nothing, or I Like OREO. I just pushed the driver to master, under the name ilo. The driver is still new and has many bugs or known issues, but I will continue improving it.
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