Mir support in mesa, vulkan, xserver

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 11.05.2017 16:28, Alan Griffiths wrote:
> On 11/05/17 13:13, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> 	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?
> 
> 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.

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

> 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.)

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
> I'm not yet aware of?

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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