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Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support


A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support.

A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support. With no user complaints and the DRI2 / legacy X11 support not receiving any love, Mesa 25.2 is going ahead and stripping out the code. We can move bind_wayland_display support behind a similar legacy-wayland build flag, with the aim of deprecating it in a couple of release cycles.

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