Keith - do these drivers work with XFree86 4.4.0, or do they require
something newer ?
Also, if one is starting on a new driver do you recommend using 4.4.0
codebase or something different ? (the simpler the better..)
thanks !
Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> I've committed a patch to allow people to build DRI drivers directly in Mesa
> CVS. There are still a couple of gotchas, so I'm going to give some build
> instructions here:
>
> 1) Update your mesa CVS...
>
> 2) Ensure you have a checkout of DRM cvs somewhere.
> 3) Edit <MesaCVS>/config/linux-dri to set DRM_SOURCE_PATH to point to the DRM
> cvs tree.
>
> 4) In <MesaCVS>, type: make linux-dri
> -- This should (hopefully) build the *_dri.so files and place them in
> <MesaCVS>/lib
>
> To use the drivers:
>
> 1) export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=<MesaCVS>/lib
>
> and then go off and run some demos to check.
>
> I've tested a few things such as quake, tuxracer and the Mesa demos, and all
> seems well. Additionally, I've verified that DRI cvs continues to build.
>
> Hopefully, we can start a new 'stable' Mesa branch shortly, import that into
> DRI CVS so that we can stop worrying about breaking the DRI build with every
> Mesa change. Then, driver development can continue in the Mesa tree, the DRI
> tree will host DDX and integration development and receive periodic snapshots
> into xc/extras/Mesa, as it used to.
>
> Keith
>
>
>
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