On Thu, 10 May 2012 00:04:35 -0700 Chad Versace <[email protected]> wrote:
> This series extends the DRI2 protocol by adding a new request, DRI2GetParam. > The new request effectively allows clients to perform feature detection on the > DDX. > > When Intel begins adding MSAA support to its DDX, having a clean way to do > feature detection will allow us to avoid painful painful feature-detection > hacks. > > I have written several functional tests in Piglit for this series. All tests > pass. You can find the tests at piglit:tests/dri2/dri2-getparam*.c. To run > the tests, you need the dri2getparam branch in the following repos: > git://people.freedesktop.org/~chadversary/xorg.proto.dri2proto.git > /xorg.xserver.git > /xorg.driver.xf86-video-intel.git > /xcb.proto.git > /xcb.libxcb.git > /piglit.git > > > The series touches both dri2proto and the xserver. > > Chad Versace (2): > [dri2proto] dri2proto: Add DRI2GetParam request > [xserver] dri2: Add DRI2GetParam request > This is nicer than using the version checks, since a server may enable some features and not others, and communicating that with a version means we're stuck with a lowest common denominator... -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
