[ubuntu-x] gallium version of i915_dri.so

[erwin]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:45:10 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers
<raof at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:11 -0800, Bryce Harrington 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.
> 
> I'm pretty sure i915g is being actively maintained and developed; IIRC
> the ChromeBooks use i915g.  It is, as Erwin says, more featureful than
> i915.
> 
> i965g is indeed unmaintained and (as far as I'm aware) never did
> anything much more than lock up the GPU.
> 
> Chris

The reply by Chris is now approximately 2 weeks old and yesterday there
was another update of the packages but still no gallium i915_dri. Since
this problem is probably not going to fix itself, I'm asking again:

Is there anything I can do to get gallium i915_dri back in the packages?

Erwin