xserver: Branch 'server-1.16-branch'

Julien Cristau jcristau at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue Dec 2 02:32:06 PST 2014


 man/Xserver.man |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit 386329ec7238edfd1b680c4a7acd39947a161ab5
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 1 14:26:11 2014 -0800

    Add -iglx & +iglx to Xserver.man
    
    Covers the current state after commits 99f0365b1fbdfd9238b9f,
    d0da0e9c3bb8fe0cd4879, & e3aa13b8d63ea2fba6eb4 were all applied.
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: James Jones <jajones at nvidia.com>
    Reviewed-by: Robert Morell <rmorell at nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
    (cherry picked from commit b09d59342804db7dbb8056dca43dd39f54e290aa)
    
    [alanc: Modified for server-1.16-branch to show +iglx as default instead of
            -iglx, to match code in os/utils.c in server-1.16-branch.]
    Signed-off-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>

diff --git a/man/Xserver.man b/man/Xserver.man
index 7a74e85..a4097ad 100644
--- a/man/Xserver.man
+++ b/man/Xserver.man
@@ -181,6 +181,16 @@ prints a usage message.
 .B \-I
 causes all remaining command line arguments to be ignored.
 .TP 8
+.B \-iglx
+Prohibit creating indirect GLX contexts.  Indirect GLX is of limited use,
+since it lacks support for many modern OpenGL features and extensions;
+it's slower than direct contexts; and it opens a large attack surface for
+protocol parsing errors.
+.TP 8
+.B +iglx
+Allow creating indirect GLX contexts.
+This is the default unless \-iglx is specified.
+.TP 8
 .B \-maxbigreqsize \fIsize\fP
 sets the maximum big request to
 .I size


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