Subject: Mir support in mesa, vulkan, xserver

From: Timo Aaltonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 15:13:43 +0300

Hi

Now that the future Ubuntu desktop will be based on GNOME-Shell on
Wayland, where does that leave Mir support in mesa, vulkan and xserver?
Will there be someone to push those bits upstream, or can I drop them in
Artful?

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From: Alan Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:28:40 +0100

> Will there be someone to push those bits upstream, or can I drop them in

We're still discussing the best way to move forward with these. (And
catching up with work partially completed by folks that are no longer
here to help.)

While we are no longer planning to use Mir on the desktop we need to
support Mir for Ubuntu Core based deployments going forwards. So for the
moment I want to keep these in place.

We've started discussions on how best to approach the mesa patches, they
are not yet in the form we would want to upstream but we'll get to that
soon.

I'm yet not fully informed of the state of vulkan work, so that may take
a little longer. (Depending on the work involved I'd like to complete
that, but if that's impractical we'll drop it.)

Is the xserver reference to Xmir? (We need that.) Or is there something
I'm not yet aware of?

Thanks,
Alan

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From: Timo Aaltonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:11:42 +0300

> are not yet in the form we would want to upstream but we'll get to that

Alright, good to hear. 17.2 will be released in August, hope it gets
there ;)

> that, but if that's impractical we'll drop it.)

Right, it was a late addition to zesty, and with the vulkan code shuffle
in mesa upstream I can't manage to get it to build anymore :) It's
something stupid I'm sure (missing prototypes), but can't figure out
what's wrong with my tired eyes..

> Is the xserver reference to Xmir? (We need that.) Or is there something

No, I meant Xmir. I understand the current version is almost
upstreamable? There might be 1.20 released in time for artful, getting
it there would be great.

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From: Alan Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 15:16:53 +0100

> what's wrong with my tired eyes..
I'm happy to add another pair of eyes.

Can you make that easy for me and tell me the steps to reproduce?

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From: Timo Aaltonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:37:50 +0300

> I'm happy to add another pair of eyes.

Thanks! Just to notify the list too that this issue has been fixed now
and 17.1.0-1u1 is on the way to artful.

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