Mesa 9.2 Is At 1.3 Million Lines Of Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 9.2 Is At 1.3 Million Lines Of Code

With Mesa 9.2 due to be released next month and it having a lot of new features, I figured it's time to dive into some Git development statistics to see how the code-base is for Mesa 9.2...

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

[AJenbo]

I'm suprised that we don't see more AMD devs on the list.

[ForkedPython]

I'm suprised that we don't see more AMD devs on the list.

are you though

[uid313]

Year of Linux gaming

So this is the year of Linux gaming.
We got Valve on board with their Steam platform and launching all their games on Linux.
AMD and Intel have open source drivers.

Yet, Mesa is having fewer commits than in previous years?

[CrvenaZvezda]

Is it faster?

[zanny]

So this is the year of Linux gaming.
We got Valve on board with their Steam platform and launching all their games on Linux.
AMD and Intel have open source drivers.

Yet, Mesa is having fewer commits than in previous years?

The contributions are mostly VM / legacy / Intel, not AMD / Nvidia. Nvidia doesn't contribute anything ever (gpu wise, they have released Tegra code), and AMD has like 5 devs total for all their foss projects.

The virtualization and Intel drivers are really, really mature and good. Hence fewer commits.

[bridgman]

I'm suprised that we don't see more AMD devs on the list.

You've got Michel & Christian in the top 20 this year (radeonsi and uvd), and Tom last year (llvm)...

[dietrdan]

I was surprised to see a decrease in commits since 2010.
Could somebody explain possible reasons for it? Maybe as Zanny said, most work is done, only optimizations left to do?

[Andrecorreia]

less but better

less but better commits, look from amd foss, when they brings patchs they working well, less regressions etc

[duby229]

I was surprised to see a decrease in commits since 2010.
Could somebody explain possible reasons for it? Maybe as Zanny said, most work is done, only optimizations left to do?

I wouldnt exactly say there is less to do. It's just that in previous years gallium3d was still being brought up. Now that work is mostly done.