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Mesa Will Stop Building Gallium-XA By Default
Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration
Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. XA was interesting many years ago but no longer really the case, especially with most modern Linux desktop users now on Wayland. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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