On 02/06/2015 05:10 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote:
"util" is meant to be for shared utility across the entire code base -
both Mesa and Gallium. It's been growing slowly as people move things
there. It might make sense to move a lot of src/gallium/auxiliary/util
there, in fact - there's always been a lot of duplication between Mesa
and Gallium's utility code. But that's up to the Gallium developers.
Imho currently the util library is growing on the basis of "we can
share X let's throw it in there" rather than putting much thought
about the structure/"design" of it - unlike in gallium.
Are you serious? Let's be honest with ourselves. I probably would have
been a better plan to not put commonly useful code deep in Gallium in
the first place.
A little history- the original intention was that the gallium code
should stand on its own without dependencies on Mesa. In the early days
we even considered putting gallium in its own git repo.
That never happened but we kept the principle of gallium not having any
outside dependencies.
Also, if there were no classic / non-gallium drivers today we'd probably
be treating Mesa as one big gallium state tracker, and it would directly
use the gallium utility code.
Anyway, today's reality is something else. Refactoring things is
desirable, but it's never as straightforward as you'd hope.
Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to work on this, or think about
it much.
-Brian
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