Re: Questions on libdrm Future

2005-11-12 Thread Thomas Hellström
Adam Jackson wrote: 3) What about libXF86DRI? To make a DRI client you need libdrm and a hypothetical libXF86DRI to get the functions such as XF86DRIOpenConnection. Clearly you'd want to rename the functions to something like XDRIOpenConnection(), but getting a library that can be linked by

Re: Questions on libdrm Future

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Sottek
>I go back and forth on this. My concern is that the DRI protocol really >shouldn't be user visible at all. In fact I'm largely of the opinion that >the DRI protocol was a mistake. Almost all of it should have been either >inferred from existing GLX protocol (drawable and context ops) or added as >

Re: Questions on libdrm Future

2005-11-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On Friday 11 November 2005 14:22, Matt Sottek wrote: > 1) Is libdrm intended to be staticly linked with a libGL, libXvMC etc. Or > are you invisioning a dynamic library available on all systems? Intended to be dynamic. Any layer that needs to talk to the DRM driver (server, libGL, libXvMC...) sh

Questions on libdrm Future

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Sottek
I work on the Intel Embedded Graphics Driver (IEGD). The discussion on libdrm generated some interestbecause our driver makes use of the DRI and needs such functionality. Currently we are just using a version of thelibdrm stuff created by taking the sources from Xorg 6.8.2 with almost no modificati