Re: Reason for discontinuing support for Glamor

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Just to clarify, so the support is removed since glamor is merged into xorg-server?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 4:09 PM
> To: Yu, Chan KitX
> Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Reason for discontinuing support for Glamor
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:13:56AM +0000, Yu, Chan KitX wrote:
> >    Greetings folks,
> >
> >
> >
> >    I noticed that the Intel driver has removed support for Glamor
> >    [1]http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-September/044068.html .
> May
> >    I know the rationale behind this move? I can see that Glamor itself has
> >    not been updated for a year which raises the question if it is
> >    discontinued, but I’m not sure if that’s one of many reason Glamor
> support
> >    was removed.
> 
> It's a feature, robustness and perf regression, for which people do not seem
> to be even interested in reaching feature parity. Development moved into
> into to Xorg server codebase making the external version irrelevant.
> -Chris
> 
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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