[bug#74780] Request for merging "mesa-updates" branch

[Efraim Flashner]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 08:31:57PM +0000, John Kehayias wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:30 AM, John Kehayias wrote:
> 
> > Hi Guix,
> >
> > Currently the mesa-updates branch just has a few updates which seem to
> > have built fine (on x86_64 at least), see
> > <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74779>.
> >
> > I don't know of other pending changes other than a libva update I'll
> > see about. Perhaps we can do some ungrafting too?
> >
> > John
> 
> (CC-ing Efraim after the patch to build the asahi vulkan driver on
> aarch64-linux)

I didn't test it (I don't have the hardware), but it built just fine and
I assume the Asahi people know what they're doing.

> I just rebased on master after further updating wayland-protocols and
> mesa to their very freshest versions.

I'll rebuild again on a couple of architectures but I don't expect any
issues.

> Not much else going on here, so maybe just let this build and then merge
> to keep things current. Unfortunately the QA page hasn't shown a status
> for this branch but I'll check later.
> 
> There are discussions about libglvnd support in Mesa I need to chime in
> on, so we could tackle that, but not until the new year for me. That
> will require a decent number of changes and lots more testing, so my
> preference would be to merge this branch when substitutes are available
> and then immediately work on libglvnd or whatever else is pending.

That makes sense. Regular smallish updates are one of the reasons for
the team/topic -based branches.

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