Alan Hourihane wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:42:48AM -0700, Jens Owen wrote:
> > First, what are the base requirements before installation? It looks
> > like XFree86 4.x and Linux Kernel 2.4.x are required and checked for by
> > the install script. Are the DRI sources required as well? It looks
> > like my DRM kernel modules sources are symbolic links to source files
> > that don't get included in the tar ball.
> >
> The requirement has always been XFree86 4.x and kernel 2.4.x - when
> has this not been the case ? (apart from the old 2.2.x kernel days)...
> They were certainly written with that requirement in mind though.
Thanks for the clarification--I am looking at the possibility of
providing a smaller subset of drivers (no GL or core libraries), but I'm
not sure how possible that really is.
Originally, the DRI architecture was designed to be able to provide
downloadable binary drivers from multiple sources and not clobber each
other--I intend to find out how close to that reality we really are.
> As for the symlinks. It's using tar, so I guess you've run the dripkg.sh
> that points to an 'lndir'ed tree. You need to build in checked out tree.
Ahh, thanks.
> > Second, how much do we want to upgrade (replace)? It looks like the
> > scripts upgrade the OpenGL API libraries (libGL & libGLU); internal core
> > libraries (libglx, libGLcore, libdri & libdrm), DRM kernel modules (all
> > of them?) and user level drivers (2D and 3d). I can see how replacing
> > all of these would increase our chance of success--however, what does
> > this do to compatability with older (or other) drivers.
> >
> Yes. It basically replaces everything. During the original writing of
> the scripts, things were changing much much faster and we needed to.
That makes sense. What you have is really a rather robust way of
getting a lot of users a reliable update. What I am exploring is
minimize the file set even further so that binaries can be released from
multiple providers and still work well together.
Regards,
Jens
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