On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:51 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote: > > We're about to merge the texmem-0-3 branch with the Mesa trunk. This > will currently only affect the i915 driver. > > To make the new i915 driver work after the merge one has to obtain the > latest xserver git,
Is there any requirement for this other than new libdrm functions? xf86-video-intel probably can't rely on them anyway at least until they make it into an xserver release. If only the X server could use libdrm directly... > the latest xf86-video-intel git, the latest drm / > libdrm git and an updated linux agp module from > git://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/linux-agp-compat/ > > Which should work with 2.6 kernel series. > > The 6.5.1 i915 3D driver will still work with these components, and we > have two options with the 6.5.2 i915 driver: > > 1) Replace the old driver. People wanting to use Mesa 6.5.2 with the > i915 driver will have to upgrade the above components. > > 2) Give the new driver another name, i915tex_dri.so and have a 2D driver > option to choose which driver to use. This might create a maintainance > problem but the transition will be smoother. 3) Replace the driver in the Mesa tree but still change the shared object name to make the transition smoother wrt other components. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
