Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-07 Thread Rob Clark
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Simon Farnsworth wrote: > >> On 6 Feb 2017, at 22:01, Jan Pokorný wrote: >> >> On 06/02/17 15:13 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: >>> There has been a lot of discussions for the last few years about glvnd on >>> the mesa-devel list and at XDC. This is not Fedora sp

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-07 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Rich Mattes" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 12:33:45 PM > Subject: Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25 > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Hans de Goede

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-07 Thread Rich Mattes
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 06-02-17 23:01, Jan Pokorný wrote: >> >> On 06/02/17 15:13 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: >>> >>> There has been a lot of discussions for the last few years about glvnd on >>> the mesa-devel list and at XDC. This is not Fedora spe

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-07 Thread Simon Farnsworth
> On 6 Feb 2017, at 22:01, Jan Pokorný wrote: > > On 06/02/17 15:13 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: >> There has been a lot of discussions for the last few years about glvnd on >> the mesa-devel list and at XDC. This is not Fedora specific technology, but >> a change in how Mesa will work ever

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-07 Thread Hans de Goede
rný" To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 2:32:35 PM Subject: Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25 On 06/02/17 05:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Hans de Goede wrote: libglvnd is a solution for this it is a vendor neutral implementation of libGL.so.1 which acts as

Re: Change process question [was Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25]

2017-02-07 Thread Jan Kurik
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 08:38:04AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >> > >* Why is it not proposed for F26 (now the deadline is over, but IMHO it >> > >should get in)? >>

Re: Change process question [was Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25]

2017-02-06 Thread Fabio Alessandro Locati
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 08:38:04AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > >* Why is it not proposed for F26 (now the deadline is over, but IMHO it > > >should get in)? > > > > Since the plan has always been (as that page shows) to get it i

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Fabio Alessandro Locati
On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 09:10:26AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi All, > > So a lot has been said about $subject and FESco has asked me > to send a mail to the devel list describing the what and why > of this change. Hi Hans, hi everyone, I have to say that I'm a little bit impressed by the fac

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Jan Pokorný
n tell. -- Jan > Christian > > > > - Original Message - >> From: "Jan Pokorný" >> To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 2:32:35 PM >> Subject: Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25 >> >> On 06/02/17 05:06

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christian Schaller wrote: > Or in other words if people like yourself actually bothered contributing > to Nouveau instead of wasting their time other projects. I am doing these builds: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kkofler/qtwebengine/package/mesa/ with the locking fixes that are require

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Rob Clark
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> libglvnd is a solution for this it is a vendor neutral >> implementation of libGL.so.1 which acts as a dispatcher >> to one or more glvnd enabled libGL implementations >> installed on the systems. > > By doing so, it decreases performance for

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Christian Schaller
stuff, we do not discuss major new kernel features here that much either as one example. Christian - Original Message - > From: "Jan Pokorný" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 2:32:35 PM > Subject: Re: The glvnd + mesa update fo

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Jan Pokorný
On 06/02/17 05:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Hans de Goede wrote: >> libglvnd is a solution for this it is a vendor neutral >> implementation of libGL.so.1 which acts as a dispatcher >> to one or more glvnd enabled libGL implementations >> installed on the systems. > > By doing so, it decreases

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Kevin Kofler" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 11:06:36 PM > Subject: Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25 > > Hans de Goede wrote: > > First the what: ever since AMD and NVIDIA st

Re: Change process question [was Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25]

2017-02-06 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On 02/06/2017 08:38 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> * Why is it not proposed for F26 (now the deadline is over, but IMHO it >>> should get in)? >> >> Since the plan has always been (as that page shows) to get it into F25, >> which would

Change process question [was Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25]

2017-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > >* Why is it not proposed for F26 (now the deadline is over, but IMHO it > >should get in)? > > Since the plan has always been (as that page shows) to get it into F25, > which would not make it a F26 change. There's a big Change pro

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Hans de Goede wrote: > First the what: ever since AMD and NVIDIA started shipping > their own Linux drivers we have had multiple competing > implementations of libGL.so.1 (and friends) where the way > the linker works means that there can be only one. > This has made installing AMD or NVIDIA's driv

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 09:10 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > This also mostly explains the why of this change, > except for why also bring it to Fedora 25 and not > just to Fedora 26 and later? > > The main reason for this is a non-technical reason, > we (as in the Fedora project) have quite vocally

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 05-02-17 20:35, Christian Dersch wrote: Hi all, On 02/05/2017 09:10 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: This also mostly explains the why of this change, except for why also bring it to Fedora 25 and not just to Fedora 26 and later? The main reason for this is a non-technical reason, we (as in t

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
Everybody has made some valid points, but as far as pushing to F25 stable goes, there may be an undetermined number of people who -unaware of this discussion and for whatever reason- already have libglvnd and relevant packages installed from testing. I'm not sure that someone who was advised in a f

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Christian Dersch
Hi all, On 02/05/2017 09:10 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > > This also mostly explains the why of this change, > except for why also bring it to Fedora 25 and not > just to Fedora 26 and later? > > The main reason for this is a non-technical reason, > we (as in the Fedora project) have quite vocally >

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2017 09:10 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi All, So a lot has been said about $subject and FESco has asked me to send a mail to the devel list describing the what and why of this change. My view: This change is way too radical to apply it to a distribution midst lifetime of its release.

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Rich Mattes
On 02/05/2017 03:10 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi All, So a lot has been said about $subject and FESco has asked me to send a mail to the devel list describing the what and why of this change. There's two issues here that are important not to conflate: whether the glvnd update should go into f2

The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-05 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi All, So a lot has been said about $subject and FESco has asked me to send a mail to the devel list describing the what and why of this change. First the what: ever since AMD and NVIDIA started shipping their own Linux drivers we have had multiple competing implementations of libGL.so.1 (and f