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Title: I made a mesa patch that allows Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition to work OOTB on mesa
GloriousEggroll 13 Jan 2019
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basically I took a look at the shim and pieced together a patch for mesa based on it:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93551
https://gist.github.com/GloriousEggroll/169874b1ed1549c5cdd5ff4473e536f0

this should allow users to be able to run the game OOTB on mesa without needing a shim

would be interested in feedback, especially on intel considering the game seems to want "ATI Technologies, Inc." as the vendor. You'll need to know how to patch mesa. Probably easier to do on Arch or gentoo.
Liam Squires-Hand 13 Jan 2019
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Oh this is cool, once ready do you think it might be accepted into Mesa directly?
GloriousEggroll 13 Jan 2019
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I really would like it to be mainlined, as compiling mesa isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea. That's the purpose of why I made the patch. I want to get input on what should/could/needs to be changed in order for it to get accepted into mesa, to finally get this headache of a bug closed.
Liam Squires-Hand 13 Jan 2019
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Quoting: GloriousEggrollI really would like it to be mainlined, as compiling mesa isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea. That's the purpose of why I made the patch. I want to get input on what should/could/needs to be changed in order for it to get accepted into mesa, to finally get this headache of a bug closed.
Awesome stuff, thank you for the effort. Papercuts like this are an annoyance, so I do hope you manage to get it in!
Shmerl 14 Jan 2019
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I don't think it will be accepted in Mesa as is. May be some environment variable to override the vendor with specific value would make more sense.

Compiling a shim is indeed easier than compiling Mesa. If you want feedback from Mesa developes, better open a new Mesa bug with your proposed approach.
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