On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:39:19PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
| 
| Now, imagine the drivers having an interface that a tool (for creating app.
| profiles) could query.  The driver would send back (perhaps using XML or
| something similar?) a list of "knobs" that is has in the form:
| 
| - Short name
| - Long description
| - Type (boolean, range, etc.)
| - Default value (perhaps as mandated by the OpenGL standard)

That's a good design for controlling driver-level preferences, if you're
determined to spend time on that approach.

Before coding it up, a good exercise (which we could do online) is to
generate a list of "knobs" that would apply to all drivers.  I think
that'll be instructive. :-)

Allen


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