[PULL] MAXSCREENS removal preparation

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:27:56 -0700, Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 05:29:16AM -0700, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> > Keith,
> >
> > This patch series is a preparation to remove MAXSCREENS from the server. It
> > shouldn't affect nothing so in depth, really. Just a preparation.
> >
> > Before go to remove MAXSCREENS, there will be probably one more one
> > preparation set including xinerama patches from Jamey (I still have to review
> > them) and some xvfb fixes that I sent a week ago. That's in my backlog.
> >
> > On the top of this patch series there's a single patch to remove "unused"
> > fields and bump the ABI. This one is not reviewed by no one yet, but I guess
> > you can choose by yourself if it goes or not.
> >
> > The work is here:
> >
> >     git://people.freedesktop.org/~vignatti/xserver.git for-keith
> >
> >
> > Please, let me know if everything looks good. Thanks
> >
> >            Tiago
> >
> >
> > The following changes since commit 35d208125fa0ec78e8d694adc52886b977e789cf:
> >   Tiago Vignatti (1):
> >         xfree86: fix not reached code in fi1236 driver from i2c
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> >   git://people.freedesktop.org/~vignatti/xserver.git for-keith
> >
> > Jamey Sharp (3):
> >       xfree86: use screen privates for Xv offscreen images.
> 
> Why does xf86XVRegisterOffscreenImages call dixRequestPrivate every time,
> with a constant size?  You should be able to call it in, say,
> xf86XVScreenInit and just rely on dixLookupPrivate to allocate the
> requested size for you.
> 
> >       xfree86: use screen privates for exclusive DGA clients
> 
> Can we ditch DGAClientPrivateKey and combine the two DGA keys into one?
> I'm worried that we're going to hit PRIV_MAX (currently 256) soon.

Don't worry; I'm rewriting the devPrivates stuff so that adding more
screen privates won't increase memory usage for windows.

> Bleh @ gratuitous ABI changes, but whatever.

Yeah, I'm hoping to get the devPrivates change into 1.9 as well, and
that will be actually useful :-)

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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