[arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

2021-12-05 Thread Lone_Wolf via arch-general
Hi, Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] . This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c . The plan is to support those older drivers through a new mesa LTS version that can be installe

Re: [arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

2021-12-05 Thread David C. Rankin via arch-general
On 12/5/21 6:43 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > > Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] . > > This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia > cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c . > > The plan is to support tho

Re: [arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

2021-12-05 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: Dropping hardware support is a bad idea. Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit, though, for example i686? OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

2021-12-05 Thread David C. Rankin via arch-general
On 12/5/21 8:09 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote: > On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: >> Dropping hardware support is a bad idea. > > Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit, > though, for example i686? > Agreed, but