Originally posted by uid313
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- They've already put a lot of work into the DRI driver, and don't want to stall development for a year or so while they port everything to Gallium, and then also have to deal with all the bug reports of anything that gets mis-ported.
- They don't believe that Gallium would give them superior performance to the back-end that they already have been working on.
- Most of the Intel developers weren't familiar with the Gallium APIs and TGSI, and it would take training time to get up to speed... time where they wouldn't be improving the DRI driver
So... that being said, If Chia-I Wu can get the 'ilo' driver up to the point where it is competitive with the Intel DRI driver, maybe we'll see a re-evaluation in policy. I believe that it re-uses much of the existing Intel back-end code, so it would make it easier for Intel to transition over to the new Gallium model, since the code for their back-end would still be familiar, and most of the TGSI abstraction/conversion code would already be done.
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