Re: time for amber2 branch?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM Thomas Debesse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Le mer. 19 juin 2024 à 16:33, Mike Blumenkrantz
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > In looking at the gallium tree, I'm wondering if it isn't time for a second amber branch to prune some of the drivers that cause pain when doing big tree updates
>
> It's probably fine for nv30 and r300 that are very unlikely to receive
> new features being implemented anyway (if I'm right all they do is
> OpenGL 2.1).
>
> For r600 it may be more annoying to split the tree for someone wanting
> to continue the rusticl implementation in order to drop clover, as
> this would split rusticl as well.
> Maybe the work-in-progress “Terakan” vulkan driver for r600 cards
> won't be affected because vulkan is not a gallium thing.
>

yeah not sure. r600 is in an odd place where supporting OpenCL at all
is quite a painful process. I think it's fair to continue using clover
for that one unless somebody really cares and really makes it all work
and fixes edge cases.

> I don't use any of the others so I have no thought about them.
>
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> Thomas “illwieckz” Debesse
>