Re: time for amber2 branch?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM Mike Blumenkrantz
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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:
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> * nv30

ack for nv30

> * r300
> * r600
> * lima
> * virgl
> * tegra

Personally I still think that removing the tegra driver completely is
probably the best approach. I personally don't support it anymore and
I doubt anybody else actually does, given it's broken on quite a few
setups. So might as well just amber2 it for those who care enough.

> * ???
>

> There's nothing stopping these drivers from continuing to develop in an amber branch, but the risk of them being broken by other tree refactorings is lowered, and then we are able to delete lots of legacy code in the main branch.
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> Thoughts?
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>
> Mike