On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 21:29, Bhavana Nagendra wrote:
> > On Fre, 2003-03-14 at 17:42, Bhavana Nagendra wrote: 
> 
> > > Since the driver opens /dev/dri/card0 as it boots up, 
> > > I'd like to know how exactly does it use the DRIVER_MAJOR, 
> > > DRIVER_MINOR macros?   Are these macros required?
> > 
> > They denote the API version of the specific DRM, not the 
> > major and minor
> > of the device. You probably don't need them if you don't use our DRM
> > templates.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I'm using the DRM templates.  
> These are the values I have, I must have got them from an
> example.
> DRIVER_MAJOR 1
> DRIVER_MINOR 0
> DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL 0
> 
> How do I find out what's the major, minor and patch level for 
> the DRM I'm using?  The DRM I'm using is from CVS, ~July 2002. 

These days, the DRM prints it on initialization, e.g.

[drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0

but I don't know if that was always the case. Then, if there has been a
backwards compatible change in the interface of the DRM to user space,
you need to bump the minor; if there has been an incompatible change
(strongly discouraged), you need to bump the major.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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