[PATCH 0/7] unifdef ROOTLESS

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Thu Oct 24 10:15:05 PDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 00:20 +0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > This happens to be true at the moment.  It might be nice if Xorg could
> > run the same rootless code as the others, when it's nested under some
> > other window system.  Right now I'm pretty sure xwayland's root window
> > has actual storage...
> 
> It's kinda like the SMP vs uniproc code in the kernel -- until we're at
> the point where most systems are using the rootless code, I'm inclined
> to keep the optimized paths for the common case. I just don't see a
> compelling reason to get rid of it yet.

Challenge accepted.

- ajax



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