[PATCH video-ati] Revert "radeon: enable glamor by default (v4)"

[Gaetan Nadon]

On 13-10-02 05:17 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> This reverts commit 282587cd0709850e7bacb1d8307065d95dc2c97d.
>>
>> Requiring the glamor package by default breaks the build as this package
>> contains development files and is generally not installed by default in distros.
>>
>> It also goes against user expectations that the X source tree can be built
>> out of the box without having to set configure options.
>>
>> Moreover, the package is only available on a few very recent distros, for
>> example Ubuntu saucy 13.10. The package name is libglamor-dev.
>>
>> /usr/include/xorg/glamor.h
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglamor.so
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/glamor-egl.pc
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/glamor.pc
>> /usr/share/doc/libglamor-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
>> /usr/share/doc/libglamor-dev/copyright
>>
>> My assumption is that the dev package is not required at run time but only
>> required for ati driver developers who are writing code against glamor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>
> NAK.  glamor is required for acceleration on newer asics.
Ok, patch withdrawn.
>
> Alex
>
>
>> ---
>>
>>         There is no .pc file for runtime time package, so I don't know how you
>> can tell if it is installed or not. Perhaps other distros don't make a
>> distinction and lump all files together.
>>
>> Here is the link to the three Ubuntu packages:
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=glamor&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
>>
>> I don't have a good enough understanding to propose a patch for a real solution
>> if all my assumptions are correct.
>>
>>  configure.ac |    6 +++---
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>> index 0fe0991..8b83a7c 100644
>> --- a/configure.ac
>> +++ b/configure.ac
>> @@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $XORG_CFLAGS"
>>
>>  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to include GLAMOR support])
>>  AC_ARG_ENABLE(glamor,
>> -             AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-glamor],
>> -                            [Disable glamor, a new GL-based acceleration [default=enabled]]),
>> +             AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-glamor],
>> +                            [Enable glamor, a new GL-based acceleration [default=no]]),
>>               [GLAMOR="$enableval"],
>> -             [GLAMOR=yes])
>> +             [GLAMOR=no])
>>  AC_MSG_RESULT([$GLAMOR])
>>  AM_CONDITIONAL(GLAMOR, test x$GLAMOR != xno)
>>  if test "x$GLAMOR" != "xno"; then
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
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