On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 18:27, Mike Mestnik wrote: > --- Michel Dnzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 18:43, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > > I have something to add to this. Recently I tested gatos drivers going > > > from dri to gatos was painless. However when I went back my computer > > > locked up. > > > > That's because they have made incompatible changes to the DRM but > > haven't changed its major version number to reflect that. > > > I think I understand what your saying. I did a full build (make World && make > install), > overwriting all of DRI, hopefully. Then I did the same to get back. I also updated > and > rmmod/modprobe the DRM, bothways. I think what is going on here is that there is > some state that > needs to be cleared on init, and deinit also(in gatos and fiergl). Thats why I > think there should > be a merge for the difference in state changes made on init/deinit. I don't think > this should > change the API, and would seem to be more of a bug fix.
They use a different memory layout on the card, on which all components (X server, DRM and clients) have to agree, so it's very much an API issue. We want to move to their memory layout for several reasons, but there has to be a transition which preserves backwards compatibility. That provided, the problems on switching between DRMs may be gone as a bonus with some luck, or it will just be a detail to work out hopefully. > > > Would there be any use in a merge of gatos init to dri or are thay > > > just too diffrent? > > > > Their DRM changes can't be merged as long as they require changing the > > major version number. While you're at it, please ask them whether the > > solution laid out in http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314 would > > work for them or that they should please take part in the discussion > > otherwise. > > > I understand. So you asked? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
