On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 20:34, Ian Romanick wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Sorry I broke the DRI build, now I see what the problem is. When the Mesa is > > included in the DRI tree is it is using the DRM driver in the DRI tree. I didn't > > know that the DRI build would alter the Mesa include paths. > > Ugh. In the future, if people are going to do something that will alter > build processes, the ramifications need to be discussed and agreed upon > by other developers. Silence != approval. Stuff like this makes good > topics for the weekly IRC meetings. :)
Indeed. > > I have pile of changes ready that require simultaneous changes in > > mesa and the drm driver. For me it would be much simpler to have the > > DRM driver and mesa in the same tree. I'm targeting this work to go > > into xserver, not xfree. I don't see how that matters; same DRM. (BTW, the DRM in the DRI tree isn't 'a copy', it's The Original(TM) :) > > But other people want to keep the DRM in the DRI tree. Doing this means I have > > to be careful about doing parallel check-ins to both trees. Which is a good thing, because it should help keep the interface clean. > > It also forces me to work in the DRI tree, a tree that I'm not using. > > I don't think anyone *really* wants to keep it in the DRI tree. I think > most folks want it in its own tree. Yes. Once the userspace drivers have moved to the Mesa and X trees, there won't be much more left anyway. :) > Perhaps now would be a good time to forge ahead on that front as well. > Dunno. The sooner the better IMHO. Any takers? -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
