Package request: mesa-amber

[charwhee]

Package name

mesa-amber

Package homepage

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/amber/docs/relnotes/21.3.9.rst

Description

Legacy intel video drivers were removed from the mesa package and moved to mesa-amber.

"After Mesa 21.3, all non-Gallium DRI drivers were removed from the Mesa source-tree. These drivers are still being maintained to some degree, but only on the amber branch, and only for critical fixes.

These drivers include: Radeon r200 i915 i965 Nouveau (the DRI driver for NV04-NV20)"

Reference Documentation: https://docs.mesa3d.org/amber.html https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=mesa-amber

Does the requested package meet the package requirements?

System, Compiled, Required

Is the requested package released?

Yes

[MIvanchev]

What is the point of this package. Most (all?) of the devices are still supported by Mesa.

[charwhee]

Yes, it's for older computers, and Void is one of the only distributions that still support 32-bit architectures, so it makes sense to support older video drivers. If it's not something you want to prioritize, totally understand (I can see all the requests you get). I'll take a crack at it - I suspect it will be identical to mesa except for 'amber' in the name. Cheers!

[MIvanchev]

Yes, it's for older computers

What I wanted to say is that the Gallium drivers support these devices as well so older computers should still be good.

[20NE]

Even arch linux with mesa-amber package

[classabbyamp]

I'd be happy to accept such a package if someone with the hardware to use and test it were to maintain it.

Also, "[other distro] has [package]" is not valid justification for adding a package

[20NE]

not [other distro], I said "arch linux"

[classabbyamp]

arch is not void, so it is another distro

[20NE]

One way Arch not that bloat, BTW