[ubuntu-x] gallium version of i915_dri.so

[erwin]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:11:21 -0800, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:13:50PM +0100, erwin wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:31:57 +0200, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>> > (please use the mailing list mentioned on the maintainer field of the
>> > package)
>> > 
>> > On 10.02.2012 15:51, erwin wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Hi Timo,
>> >> 
>> >> I noticed the following line in the changelog for
>> >> libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental in the xorg edgers ppa:
>> >> 
>> >> Drop the dri-alternates driver search path, and don't ship
>> >>     gallium version of i915_dri.so for now
>> >> 
>> >> Could you tell me why you stopped shipping the gallium version of
>> >> i915_dri.so? I used this to get OpenGL2 support on my netbook (some
>> games
>> >> require it). Is there anything I can do to get it back in?
>> > 
>> > Nope, don't remember why I dropped it. Maybe just that the package
had
>> > enough issues to get it built, and it was getting on the way.
>> 
>> Any chance of getting it back in? I'd be happy to help with any issues,
>> could you point me in the right direction?
> 
> I understood that this was no longer being maintained upstream, thus the
> frequent build issues.
> 
> Bryce

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/src/gallium/drivers/i915
Seems pretty active to me, but please correct me if I'm looking in the
wrong place or at the wrong things.