From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQuUj-0008OR-FZ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:26:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQuUd-00078d-HV for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:26:09 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQuUd-00077u-BB for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:26:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eQuUb-0004Po-Qn for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:26:03 -0500 Subject: [bug#29625] [PATCH core-updates] Vulkan patch series. Resent-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:24:53 +0100 From: Rutger Helling In-Reply-To: <87a7yg6xjs.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <3756bc948027ec654d31fa019426eed7@mykolab.com> <87h8suwkep.fsf@fastmail.com> <87d13c7ufm.fsf@fastmail.com> <6d40f4373582cdd82281719d051f5962@mykolab.com> <87a7yg6xjs.fsf@fastmail.com> Message-ID: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Marius Bakke Cc: 29625-done@debbugs.gnu.org Thanks for clarifying! I guess this is just a heads-up then that adding python2-mako to native-inputs is likely enough to make 17.3.1 work, whenever that comes out :). On 2017-12-18 13:16, Marius Bakke wrote: > Rutger Helling writes: > >> Hey Marius, >> >> Thanks a lot for improving and fixing the patches! >> >> Regarding your questions; when I tried to build the Vulkan drivers on >> Mesa on i686 it failed to build. >> I figured it was better to just leave it at x86_86 for now. In a >> future >> core-updates cycle it might be a good idea to start looking into other >> architectures. >> >> Retroarch won't be affected if your hardware doesn't support Vulkan, >> it >> defaults to OpenGL anyway. It's just a setting you can modify >> (video_driver). > > OK, thanks for confirming. > >> I also had an unrelated question. I saw that you updated Mesa to >> 17.2.7. >> I'm running 17.3.0 myself right now. >> Is it customary in Guix to wait for the first point release, or do you >> want me to send in a patch? >> It really only consists of updating the version, checksum and adding a >> native-input python2-mako. > > The Mesa release notes[0] has this blurb when the minor version > changes: > > Mesa 17.3.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with > stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait > for Mesa 17.3.1. > > Since we will be "stuck" on this Mesa version for some time, I prefer > sticking to the stable branches. 17.2.7 is also newer than 17.3.0 :-) > > [0] https://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/17.3.0.html