FS#74639 - [mesa] Add i915g driver

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Quinten Kock (ColonelPhantom) - Wednesday, 04 May 2022, 10:42 GMT
Last edited by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Tuesday, 06 December 2022, 08:18 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description: Mesa has recently dropped "Classic" DRI drivers, such as i915, meaning those are only supported in mesa-amber.

On Arch, users of Intel Gen2-Gen3 graphics hardware (e.g. GMA 950) are required to use this legacy package.

However, in upstream Mesa, there is an i915 Gallium driver for these cards. Adding this driver to the Mesa package in Arch would allow users of these old GPUs to still use the current and supported version of Mesa.

mesa-amber would still be useful, but only for truly ancient hardware, such as Intel i830, Radeon r200 (8500) or Nvidia NV20 (GeForce 4).
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Closed by  Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Tuesday, 06 December 2022, 08:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  mesa 22.3.0-6 in staging
Comment by mc07 (mc07) - Sunday, 04 December 2022, 14:53 GMT
Can we do this, please? It's such a trivial change - just add "i915" to the "gallium-drivers" PKGBUILD, and it would really make a difference for people still using this hardware.

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