Splitting protocol screens from the driver interface

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I like the idea of separating the driver from the protocol screens,
> and am interested in helping out.  I think it might be easiest in the
> short term to let the overlay functionality I talked about break and
> then I can add it back later in whatever form makes the most sense
> with the new architecture (which I hope will let overlays and
> Composite work together, that would be awesome).  As James mentioned
> on IRC, the biggest issue is probably going to be access to the window
> clip lists, which we definitely need for GLX but can probably live
> without for the core X driver.
>
> Is there a design document or something somewhere that we can take a
> look at to get a better understanding of what your intended target
> looks like?

I'm not sure I'd call it much of a design document, but I try to put a
coherent stream
of words into lyx this morning,

the result is at

http://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/xredesign.pdf

The src will appears in my personal git repos soon.

There is a lot of gaps in that document but I'm hoping it'll at least
be enough for
people to propose questions. I've got about 5-6 hacked up trees here
with various
forays into pieces of it all.

Dave.