Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Gallium3D Driver Merged

[mattst88]

Intel should use Gallium, there is simply no excuse not using it, except NIH. Even rewriting it from scratch is time worthy! It would steamline the Kernel and Xorg.

How many 3D drivers have you written?

[liam]

..and it would help their competitors if Intel used its massive resources on optimizing Gallium3D infrastructure....

They're already helping their competitors with their work on mesa, X, and wayland.

[remm]

Looking at their reactions, they're really annoyed by this "toy" driver, and did all they could to shoot it down. We'll see where it goes from there, but certainly Intel looks more interested in their competitive advantage than benefiting the entire Linux ecosystem.

[Ericg]

Intel should use Gallium, there is simply no excuse not using it, except NIH. Even rewriting it from scratch is time worthy! It would steamline the Kernel and Xorg.

Its not a matter of NIH, the devs have said many times that the only reason they didn't move to Gallium was because they had spent so much time optimizing the classic driver already that they didnt want all that work to be for nothing. They were very happy with the classic driver they had written and decided to stick with it

[brosis]

..and it would help their competitors if Intel used its massive resources on optimizing Gallium3D infrastructure....

That would help Intel, not so competitiors. "Competitors" introduced Gallium first, mind you. Given limited manpower, it is stupid to build walled gardens in graphics stack. This is definately the most negative point about Intel drivers.

[DanL]

Intel should use Gallium, there is simply no excuse not using it, except NIH

..and it would help their competitors if Intel used its massive resources on optimizing Gallium3D infrastructure....

[brosis]

Intel should use Gallium, there is simply no excuse not using it, except NIH. Even rewriting it from scratch is time worthy! It would steamline the Kernel and Xorg.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Gallium3D Driver Merged

The modern Gallium3D graphics driver for supporting Intel Sandy Bridge "Gen6" and Ivy Bridge "Gen7" graphics has been merged into mainline Mesa!..

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM1OTc