Thank you both for the information. I had wrongly assumed that i915_dri.so was a binary provided by Intel.
Dave On 11/8/05, Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2005, 17:05 -0400 schrieb Dave Kavanagh: > > I am looking at adding vblank synchronization support to the i915 driver. > > I have a few questions on how all of the pieces fit together and where the > > source code comes from. > > > > From my understanding, the snapshots such as i915-20051107-linux.i386 > > contain source code that is built to update the kernel DRM modules (i915.ko > > and drm.ko). The snapshot also contains binary files (i915_dri.so and > > i810_drv.o) that are copied over the existing X modules. > > i810_drv.so in the latest version. ;-) We're using the DLLoader now. > > > > > My question is this. Where is the source code that builds the new X modules? > > I found the code that builds the original modules in the X source but I > > can't > > find the source for the updated modules. > > The DDX (2D) driver modules are built from Xorg CVS HEAD. The DRI (3D) > driver modules are built from Mesa CVS HEAD. > > > > > I am very new to DRM/DRI so I may be missing something but it seems to me > > that > > adding vblank synchronization support will require modifications to both the > > DRM and DRI parts of the equation. > > I don't know what the status of this is in the i915 driver. But in > general you are right. Both DRM and DRI need support for vblank > synchronization, for example by using IRQs. > > > > > Can somebody enlighten me? Any information is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave Kavanagh > > > > Regards, > Felix > > -- > | Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fxk.de.vu | > | PGP Fingerprint: 6A3C 9566 5B30 DDED 73C3 B152 151C 5CC1 D888 E595 | > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
