Originally posted by jrch2k8
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Gallium3D starts 2008 and gets broad adoption in Mesa by 2011 with 10 different drivers covering a lots of hardware. Those have been maintained right up to current day. These drivers in places support back to to fairly old cards like the old ATI R100 series from the year 2000 is support by the current AMD Gallium based drivers. This is the hard reality almost everything in the legacy list has not been in production for at last 10 years with the majority has not been in production for at least 20 years.
What you say is master(vulkan, gallium active state trackers, nir, gallium drivers) happens to cover a very large time frame thinking this is starting with cards that were made in the year 2000.
Other hard reality there has been 10 years for people to decide their hardware was important and migrate the driver to Galluim3d to ease maintenance. DRI2 is from 2008 as well. So there has been over 10 years to migrate from DRI1 to DRI2/3.
Realities are hard like Windows 10 the oldest drivers that can be installed in that are Windows 7 drivers. For everyone there is roughy 10 year old hard wall for driver support. As in if the driver has not been updated to current day standards at some point in the last 10 years it ceases being usable mostly due to security design fault being fixed.
jrch2k8 you were not thinking how old the stuff you were putting in the legacy pile is. What you were putting in the legacy pile is fairly to the point it need to go away. If any of that hardware is used enough or is still made somewhere new drivers made.
Yes some people are going to complain that there bit of hardware is no longer supported as the legacy stuff goes away but its not really been properly supported for 10 years. Maybe this will be a wake up call to some people that drivers of the hardware your are using you will be wanting getting on going maintenance.
By the way this is the second announcement. The first announcement was in 2011 when the drivers they are dropping now they moved out of mainline Mesa. Yes 2011 they did the split between legacy and master we are now 9 years past that point.
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