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Proposal For Creating A New Mesa Legacy Driver Branch: R300, R600, Lima, NV30 & More
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source Linux GPU driver team and known for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has issued a proposal for creating a new legacy branch for older/less-maintained Gallium3D drivers.
The motivation for moving these older Gallium3D drivers out is the expressed pain in doing big tree updates within Mesa. When wanting to make large changes to the Mesa codebase, these drivers still need to be updated for compatibility and that is a maintenance burden and in many times changes are made without any actual hardware testing for these aging platforms. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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