Quoting Michel D�nzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 23:45, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> > 
> > How far away is running OpenGL apps with DRI drivers alongside this new
> > ati driver?
> 
> I don't know the status of the Radeon DRI drivers wrt DirectFB (I'm
> curious myself :), but I know that it would likely be unstable unless
> the DirectFB driver cooperates and also uses the CP. But then that may
> be required for blending and scaling anyway.

The Radeon DRI driver should work with DirectFBGL, at least without
hardware acceleration in DirectFB. There's no need for a DirectFB driver
to get a DRI driver working for DirectFBGL. Unfortunately, the Radeon DRI
driver in embedded-2-branch has to be changed the way like the Matrox driver
did. It's not trivial, but not that difficult, too.

DirectFB and DRI drivers are cooperating nearly automatically. The DirectFBGL
core acquires the graphics lock of DirectFB before acquiring the lock of DRI
and pumping the last DRI state to the hardware. This is typically done before
rendering a whole frame. After that both locks are released and the application
most probably flips the surface. The DirectFB driver is told to (re)initialize
the engine when the next graphics lock is done by DirectFB .

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  Denis Oliver Kropp

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