[RFC] Make MAXSCREENS run-time configurable

Kevin E Martin kem at freedesktop.org
Thu Apr 1 12:47:35 PDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:19:11PM +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> Allows MAXSCREENS to be determined at run time instead of compile time, adding
> a new -maxscreens command line flag.
> 
> *** Attention ABI broken everywhere! ***
> 
> There's also a tiny work needed on driver side, to change some DGA structure.
> And if you don't, some really weird pointers will get lost everywhere.
> 
> The original authors of this patch are Kevin Martin and Rik Faith, which
> created it against XFree86, back in 2005:
>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3876
>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=5708

Small correction, the original authors were Rik Faith and James Antill.
Tiago, thanks for bringing the patch up-to-date.

Thanks,
Kevin


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