Bug#812530: ITP: libglvnd -- Vendor-neutral OpenGL dispatch layer

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 02.02.2017 10:20, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 19.01.2017 11:19, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> On 13.01.2017 22:56, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 18:14 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>>>> On 12.12.2016 17:47, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>>>> On 2016-12-08 13:31, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>>>>>> It's there now, but we're still uncertain if mesa will switch to use it
>>>>>> in stretch, and I don't know how nvidia driver migrating to it without
>>>>>> mesa would work?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't plan to switch to the packaged libglvnd without mesa adopting it
>>>>> as well. Also in the current form (everything in a single package) I
>>>>> cannot use it as a drop-in replacement for the glvnd libraries from
>>>>> nvidia (where I follow a strict one library per package scheme).
>>>>> For the mesa side the question will be: will it be a complete switch
>>>>> over or will there be the possibility to switch between non-glvnd and
>>>>> glvnd based libGL etc.? NVIDIA currently provides both variants for
>>>>> libGL and libEGL, since the glvnd variants have shown some regressions
>>>>> (but I don't know in which applications). For the nvidia driver I
>>>>> provide both variants with the glvnd variant being the preferred
>>>>> alternative.
>>>>
>>>> It's a configure switch so in theory mesa could be built with glvnd and
>>>> without (two separate builds), but I doubt we'll do that.
>>>
>>> FYI: looks like Fedora is planning to enable GLVND by default, so there
>>> should be useful information popping up for us as well from that trial:
>>>
>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/BTA5ZIBD4LP6EXK6A4V4WWK7HGZTKEUU/
>>
>> Yep, I'll look at the packaging and extra patches they carry after next
>> week.
> 
> libglvnd git is now updated, have a look.. It's split again since
> there's no way to avoid that.
> 
> I have a weird issue bootstrapping mesa, where rebuilding it fails to
> install libva-dev, which pulls in some bits of the previously built mesa
> which depend on libglvnd. I hope it's just not using my local repo
> properly..

Note that the -dev package situation will likely change still.. and the
mesa changes will be worked on 'glvnd-wip' branch on mesa.git (not
pushed yet). And GLES1 is dropped.

feel free to hop on #debian-x if you have concerns :)



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