On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 09:04 +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 18:15 -0700, Ben Skeggs wrote:
> > Module: Mesa
> > Branch: master
> > Commit: e00ae524e236afba1305150cacd634eaa1f5460b
> > URL:    
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e00ae524e236afba1305150cacd634eaa1f5460b
> > 
> > Author: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
> > Date:   Wed Mar 18 08:22:35 2009 +1000
> > 
> > nouveau: rewrite winsys in terms of drm_api, support dri2 state tracker
> > 
> > drm_api is a set of hooks used by the dri2 state tracker, this wraps our
> > dri1 code around the same set of hooks.
> > 
> > Currently the dri2 build will produce nouveau_dri2.so which you'll need
> > to install as nouveau_dri.so if you wish to try it.  The dri2 state
> > tracker doesn't make it easy for a driver to support both paths in the
> > same binary.
> 
> I'd like to see the glx/dri state tracker restore support for both dri1
> and dri2.  That may lead to some slightly less-clean interfaces, but the
> reality is that dri1 continues to be important for driver developers...
Indeed, I'm 100% for this as well and had planned on talking to you guys
to see how you wanted to achieve this :)

Ben.
> 
> If there's a real reason for a dri2-only entity, that could be supported
> separately, but I think most people at this stage want to be supporting
> both.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 


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