On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 01:22:45 +0100, Sérgio Monteiro Basto
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:08, Felix Kühling wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking into porting the savage driver to the new interface so it
> > can be built in the Mesa tree. I took a look at the r128 and mga drivers
> > for reference. I noticed that the old drivers (I still have a
> > savage-2-0-0-branch lying around) used to check the DRI/DDX/DRM versions
> > (using driCheckDriDdxDrmVersions) in the CreateScreen or InitDriver
> > function. This check is gone in the current drivers and replaced by a
> > version check in the CreateNewScreen function (using
> > driCheckDriDdxDrmVersions2). However, as far as I understand this
> > function is only called if the driver is loaded by a new libGL. When the
> > driver is built without NEW_INTERFACE_ONLY and loaded by an old libGL
> > then there are no version checks any more. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Felix
> 
> I couldn't help much, but comparing drm of xorg tree with trunk tree (
> diff -rq  trunk/drm/ xorgcvs/build/extras/drm/ )
> The differences seems only cosmetic, so I guess the drm is equal. Only
> DDX has to be ported, IIRC Alex Deucher has to warning on this matter.

unless someone beats me to it, I'll try and merge the savage DDX fron
the DRI into xorg.  I'm not exactly sure when I'll get to it, have to
see how my free time pans out.  I've got a few other patches for the
savage DDX I've been working on as well.

Alex

> 
> I can try help you, on testing or in compile problems, you can send to
> me some patches to test on.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> 
> Sérgio M. B.
> 
> 
>


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