On Thursday 19 December 2002 11:39 pm, you wrote: > Couldn't this be a "general" API to get missing stuff (e.g. ATI's "Smooth > Vision", "HyperZ" etc.) into the DRI? Something like to get (binary) addon > modules into the tree. > > What do you think?
Probably a very good idea--then vendors could publish very simple, small binary loadable objects (hals) that do so. It would probably only be reasonable for such features that only need to be turned on/off somehow, as opposed to features that require more complicated interaction. I suppose it should be possible to expose hooks for them, but that might incur too big a price. Otoh, vendors might be even more scared from this as it's much easier to reverse engineer a small module that does exactly what you want to learn how to do than to learn the same thing reverse engineering an entire binary driver if that's indeed what they're afraid of... (of course, publishing something like this in the first place removes the need to reverse engineer it--except in the case of supporting other architectures). Nick ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: The Best Geek Holiday Gifts! Time is running out! Thinkgeek.com has the coolest gifts for your favorite geek. Let your fingers do the typing. Visit Now. T H I N K G E E K . C O M http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
