rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 03:58:23 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 19:57 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On 4/13/11 7:17 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Adam Jackson wrote:
> >> On 4/13/11 5:43 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >>> Will F16 finally ship the llvmpipe as the default software renderer?
> >>
> >> If by F16, you mean F15, then yes.
> >
> > Hmmm, really?
> 
> I don't know.  Let's ask the machine:
> 
> synephrine:~% DISPLAY=:0 LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 glxinfo | grep renderer
> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe
> synephrine:~% rpm -q mesa-dri-drivers
> mesa-dri-drivers-7.11-0.6.20110412.0.fc15.x86_64

In the interests of general public enlightenment, it would've been nice
if you'd answered KK's question "what am I missing", i.e., where's the
magic bit which makes llvmpipe the default? Knowledge is always a good
thing :)
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