[oe] Error message about multiple EGL / GLES providers

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>wrote:

> On 21 May 2013 11:08, Carlos Rafael Giani <dv at pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
> > It would
> > be useful to instruct Mesa to turn off its OpenGLES and EGL support,
> leaving
> > Mesa only for GLX+Desktop OpenGL (software-rendered), if anybody really
> > needs it. As an alternative, as you suggest, I could simply turn off
> desktop
> > OpenGL, but I have the feeling that this would be better off as a user
> > decision that can be configured in the local.conf file. What do you
> think?
>
> You can change mesa's PACKAGECONFIG to not build egl and gles.
> meta-intel does something like this because the EMGD/CDT drivers are
> in the same boat.
>
> However considering our software GL support in Mesa is currently
> swrast (very very bad) and not llvmpipe (usable if you have enough
> CPU, which we generally don't) you generally don't want to actually
> have any OpenGL present at all.  Generally it's mesa-demos that pulls
> in virtual/libgl, and in master this can be disabled.  This may be
> worth a backport if someone wants to backport and test it.


+1

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