[xserver] building xserver with glx but without DRI/DRM

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Mon Apr 13 23:13:03 PDT 2009


Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Rob Currey <robc at graphon.com> wrote:
>> thanks dan ...
>>
>> what about non-linuxen? (e.g. solaris-sparc, hp-parisc, hp-ia64, etc)
>>
>> perhaps I don;t understand DRI enough, but I thought it was platform
>> specific (aka either x86* or linux-only). (also likely I have it confused
>> with something else).
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what solaris does in this regard, but I believe
> they use dri. At least, Alan Coopersmith landed a bunch of patches in
> mesa to get it to work on solaris. I'm not really sure how mac handles
> glx, either, but it's done in xquartz.
> 

I also don't know what Solaris does, but this is what we're doing
noawadys (with Mesa 7.2 and later) in OpenBSD for software only GL on
architectures that don't have hardware driver.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb



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