On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Thomas Hellström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm currently building a non-glx application (similar to "ttmtest"), but > using DRI2. I suspect that there will be more such apps in the future. XvMC- > and EGL systems are likely users. > > The problem with creating a HW context is that the X server needs to do it, > and from a brief reading of the code it doesn't seem like DRI2 has a way to > do this without involving GLX structures. > > So my question is, should HW context creation functionality be added to DRI2 > for non-GLX clients, or should we just open up HW context creation for > authenticated users (perhaps using driver-specific IOCTLS)?
DRI2 doesn't use drm contexts (which is what I think you mean by HW contexts). There should be no need to create a drm context for DRI2 clients. cheers, Kristian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
