[PATCH v2] Add -iglx & +iglx to Xserver.man

James Jones jajones at nvidia.com
Wed Nov 26 13:06:52 PST 2014


On 11/26/2014 01:01 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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
>

Reviewed-by: James Jones <jajones at nvidia.com>


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