On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:47:01PM +0200, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> > That certainly shouldn't be needed for shared entities. Where exactly
> > was it crashing ?
> 
> XAA dereferences pScrn->pScreen to track the state of shared entities.
> RADEONScreenInit() calls other radeon driver functions which call
> info->accel->Sync(), but the driver independent code only sets pScrn->pScreen
> after ScreenInit(). Boom.
 
A backtrace would be useful.

> > > Something else I've been wondering is if there's any benefit to having
> > > non-DRI DDX drivers in our tree. I'd prefer having the new cursors
> > > instead. ;)
> > 
> > Yes, someone may want to start a DRI driver for that chipset.
> 
> For the fbdev, vesa, vga ... drivers? ;) Seriously though, they could
> easily add it back then. I was thinking only keeping the absolute
> minimum of drivers might cut down on the work needed for merges
> slightly, but maybe that's not the case.

For drivers that aren't DRI'ified - there are no problems whatsoever, there
are never any merge conflicts and for the size of them I'd just leave
them were they are.

Alan.


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