On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:53:50PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:37:08PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > > Jos Fonseca wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 2002.02.22 17:28 Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > > > > Jose Fonseca wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Luckily, after sending the previous email the script completed
> > > > > > sucessfully. The generated packages are available at:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/dri/packages/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Unfortunately, as you can notice the packages are huge. Attached is a
> > > > > > file list of the i810 driver. libGLcore, e.g., is 18 MB..!
> > > > >
> > > > > What is libGLcore.a?  Is that actually used?
> > > > >
> > > > > Keith
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is responsible for the indirect rendering and is only used is this
> > > > circumstance.
> > > >
> > > > The question is if there have been any changes across Xfree 4.x &/| Mesa
> > > > &/| DRI that could lead to incompatibilities...
> > >
> > > I can't see why there would have been.  This stuff doesn't really talk to the
> > > DRI or to the DDX modules in any direct way.  I don't think it will need to be
> > > replaced on downloads.
> > >
> > Keith,
> > 
> > libGLcore.a is the internal Mesa code that drives indirect GLX.
> > 
> > If anything changes in Mesa, libGLcore.a changes too.
> 
> Yes, but the interfaces to the outside world don't change - the module should
> be pretty much self contained...  shouldn't it?
> 
True, but a less than ideal situation if you've got an indirect core at
Mesa 3.4.x and a direct core at Mesa 4.0.x.

Alan.

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