Re: [V2][PATCH] mesa: Upgrade to 10.4.0

[Pengyu Ma <pengyu.ma@windriver.com>]

On 01/30/2015 03:51 PM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Pengyu Ma <pengyu.ma@windriver.com> wrote:
>> mesa_git bb will keep sync the latest version 10.4.3, that's why we keep
>> both _git and 10.4.0.
>> Now all all the version of xorg-video-intel, libdrm, and xserver-xorg are
>> the same with Intel Graphic stack 2014 Q4.
>> So mesa_10.4.0 will make a stable and verified solution here,
>> and _git version will make the latest version here.
>>
> i think you missed the point. you cannot justify the need for 10.4.0
> because it is the 'prefered' Intel version. the policy is that we
> provide in OE-core the most recent stable releases of upstream
> components. when/if I need a specific version of mesa (or anything
> else) for my project, i have a recipe in my own project layer, but
> OE-core is agnostic to that.
>
> now, if a specific version of mesa is known to be broken, upstream, or
> in very special circumstances, we might want to not use it... but that
> isn't the case here, especially since both Ross and I are asking you
> to upgrade to 10.4.3..
>
> if you don't submit 10.4.3, someone else will anyways. and actually i
> have submitted a libdrm upgrade yesterday which is likely to be merged
> soon..
Understood, but there are 2 version mesa_xxx.bb and mesa_git.bb.
Is there any reason why keep two versions?
If I updated mesa_xxx.bb to 10.4.3, it will be the same as mesa_git.bb.

Regards,
Pengyu
>
> cheers
> nicolas