Xorg 7.4 release plan
Dan Nicholson
dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 10:58:10 PST 2008
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > > Aah, the Mesa question. I love this part.
> > >
> > > DRI2, unlike pciaccess, is not a complete switchover. Both the DDX and
> > > the DRI driver can implement support for either or both of DRI1 and
> > > DRI2, so it's not blocking the release in the sense of "we can't ship
> > > until this works".
> >
> > Unfortunately, building DRI2 requires some parts of mesa master
> > (dri_sarea.h for sure).
>
> That's just the xserver DRI2 module, which is optional (pass
> --disable-dri2 to xserver ./configure). The biggest problem is that
> the AIGLX DRI loader is now using the DRI interface present in mesa
> master. It should be possible to add a glxdri-7.0.c file to GL/glx
> that loads the old-style interface, it's mostly a matter of
> resurrecting the old version of GL/glx/glxdri.c and making it compile
> conditional on the DRI interface version.
Ah, yes, --disable-dri2. It would be a little nicer if we detected
when DRI2 was possible instead of requiring the switch. Maybe
something like
if test "x$DRI2" = xauto; then
AC_CHECK_HEADERS(GL/dri_sarea.h, DRI2=yes, DRI2=no)
fi
--
Dan
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