Subject: Trying out the Mesa patches for Mir

From: Simos Xenitellis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:03:53 +0300

Hi All,

Christopher (Christopher James Halse Rogers) posted a set of 15 patches for
Mesa that adds support for Mir,
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-July/thread.html#42133

I am interested in trying them out on 13.10, according to instructions
similar to
https://plus.google.com/107558083186116705038/posts/61v9sEcoFX5

Currently, of the 15 patches, 11 still apply cleanly while the remaining 4
need some (probably easy) manual patching.

I am happy to go through the process and recompile Mesa with the patches.
However, is there anything else that I need to configure on my system so
that it continues to work?
How shall I test that my system works well with the patched Mesa?

Simos

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From: Kevin Gunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:27:55 -0500

hi Simos - have you seen the build here?
http://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/building_source_for_pc.html

which are part of a larger set of instructions related to mir, e.g. debug,
running it on the pc
http://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/
It would be good to read through the "using mir on pc" instructions which
highlights the configuration requirements.
hope that helps
br,kg

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Simos Xenitellis <
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> Hi All,
>
> Christopher (Christopher James Halse Rogers) posted a set of 15 patches
> for Mesa that adds support for Mir,
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From: Simos Xenitellis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:18:44 +0300

> highlights the configuration requirements.

Thanks Kevin.

I have compiled from source according to the above instructions for my own
use.
I am trying though to write instructions so that even end-users can test
important patches (and report the result) with the least effort, and I
think the most painless way is with debuild. Some of them may then even try
to compile from the repositories.
AFAIK, those 15 patches that Christopher sent to mesa-dev have not been
applied yet to Mesa at 13.10-development. If those specific patches need
some testing, then I am happy to try them out (and document with easy
instructions).

Simos

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From: Kevin Gunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 07:28:52 -0500

Simos - cool, look forward to seeing the what you come up with!
kg

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Simos Xenitellis <
[email-masked]> wrote:

>> which are part of a larger set of instructions related to mir, e.g.
>> debug, running it on the pc