The main supporter of this move was Ian Romanick from Intel as we can see from this mailing list thread here. Joining in backing up this move are developers from AMD and even the creator of Mesa , Brian Paul.
These talks have been gaining overall acceptance from the community and they have crystallized into a termination sentence that has been carried out swiftly.
All existing DRI1 drivers have been remove from the source tree together with all old and unmaintained code including support for BeOS.
This move has come as a heavy blow to BSD and Solaris based systems that don't yet have support for newer drivers and features and are highly dependent on the Mesa drivers.
As I am not a developer I don't know the affect this will have on HAIKU , which does use Mesa . I would like to hear from someone who knows more on this.
P.S. This also means the death to our old graphic cards. My Compaq Armada looks sadder now.
Here is a list of the drivers that have been removed : Mach64 , r128 , Unichrome , SiS , Tdfx , Savage , i810 , MGA , r128.
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