[PATCH v2] Add -iglx & +iglx to Xserver.man
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Nov 26 13:01:29 PST 2014
Covers the current state after commits 99f0365b1fbdfd9238b9f,
d0da0e9c3bb8fe0cd4879, & e3aa13b8d63ea2fba6eb4 were all applied.
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
---
v2: Made claims about what Indirect GLX supports more vague yet more
accurate than before, at the suggestion of Robert & James.
Also dropped note about compatibility with third-party GLX modules,
since they should add support as part of their 1.17 ABI updates.
man/Xserver.man | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/Xserver.man b/man/Xserver.man
index c03830c..3bf844f 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.
+This is the default unless +iglx is specified.
+.TP 8
+.B +iglx
+Allow creating indirect GLX contexts.
+.TP 8
.B \-maxbigreqsize \fIsize\fP
sets the maximum big request to
.I size
--
1.7.9.2
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