libdrm issues blocking accelerated indirect GL

Vladimir Dergachev volodya at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 30 11:46:53 PST 2004


>
> Personally I lean towards 2 or 3.  The nice bit about making libdrm a real DSO
> is that it removes the need to have the libdrm source around when building
> the -dri targets in Mesa, or when building the server; you just need to have
> built it already.  You have to handle libdrm versioning anyway.  We may as
> well think about it explicitly.  Fortunately libdrm is pretty static, the
> last change that even might have broken the ABI was 14 months ago.
>
> Any thoughts?

I think making DRM a shared library is a good idea and would facilitate 
drm use by software other than Xserver or Mesa driver.

               best

                  Vladimir Dergachev

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