As the original author of eselect-mesa, I think that tool has somewhat outlived its usefulness. r300/r600 is now dropped, and only r300g/r600g remains i915g has only a few fringe benefits over i915 (like Gallium HUD) and some downsides ilo should not be used over i965 unless you really know what you are doing So the only remaining case would be swrast vs. softpipe/llvmpipe/swr and I think switching between them with a USE flag at build time is enough.
There appears to be some value in having this with softpipe/llvmpipe/swr for runtime switching and comparing and maybe something is faster on llvmpipe than swr, while something else is faster vice-versa (though that's all for a sad software use case). Given that, what are the actual disadvantages of having this - what is the cost of keeping this going?
Users can in principle switch between implementations with the LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH environment variable or similar. If only for testing and comparing this might be sufficient.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood. If you want to switch between llvmpipe, softpipe and swr (and not swrast), you use the GALLIUM_DRIVER variable. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr/usage.rst
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2411166e56da41fc163475c0ce0f6c10310d6468 commit 2411166e56da41fc163475c0ce0f6c10310d6468 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-05-27 06:51:04 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-05-27 06:54:19 +0000 media-libs/mesa: Drop eselect-mesa support It only allowed selecting between two i915 drivers and two swrast drivers. Not interesting. Now, if gallium is enabled we will default to the gallium version of these drivers, otherwise the classic version. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/546198 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/576334 media-libs/mesa/mesa-18.1.0-r1.ebuild | 531 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ media-libs/mesa/mesa-9999.ebuild | 43 +-- 2 files changed, 532 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
Let's just use this for tracking last rites.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0ca7bd96b4618263f17aca923738b546b2466578 commit 0ca7bd96b4618263f17aca923738b546b2466578 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-09-29 17:16:18 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-09-29 17:19:08 +0000 profiles: Mask app-eselect/eselect-mesa for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/576334 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6150aef4b1af5e58b8a96af5c6c13be579b4d57d commit 6150aef4b1af5e58b8a96af5c6c13be579b4d57d Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-10-30 22:57:46 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-10-30 22:58:12 +0000 app-eselect/eselect-mesa: Remove Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/576334 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> app-eselect/eselect-mesa/Manifest | 1 - .../eselect-mesa/eselect-mesa-0.0.10-r1.ebuild | 30 ---------------------- app-eselect/eselect-mesa/metadata.xml | 8 ------ profiles/package.mask | 4 --- 4 files changed, 43 deletions(-)
