On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:04:49 -0700
Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Felix Kühling wrote:
> 
> > Forget the other patch, this one actually works. I tested it with a
> > modified radeon driver. They way I tried to access per-screen glx
> > extension data before didn't work. It used some X extension list to find
> > the screen data structure for a given display and screen number. But
> > while the DRI screens are being created the display was not yet on the
> > extension list.
> 
> Good thing I haven't had a chance to review it then. :)
> 
> > So I moved the glx extension data to the end of __DRIscreenRec and added
> > a pointer to __DRIscreenPrivateRec that points back to the
> > __DRIscreenRec. This pointer is then passed to
> > __glXScrEnable/DisableExtension by the driver's createScreen function.
> > There may be binary compatibility issues as __DRIscreenRec is accessed
> > by both libGL and the drivers. But adding new stuff to the end should be
> > fine. Those added entries are only accessed by libGL.
> 
> They may only be access in libGL, but where is the memory allocated?  I 
> don't remember for that structure without looking, but I seem to recall 
> that at least one or two of the structures are allocated in the driver. 
>   Most of them are allocated by libGL, but we should be sure. :)

Good point. But we're safe. It's not itself allocated, it's part of
GLXscreenConfigs which is allocated by libGL. AFAICS the drivers only
allocate some *private data structures that are opaque for libGL.

> > Then it may be better to move that data back to __GLXscreenConfigs and
> > add a pointer to __DRIscreenRec that points back to __GLXscreenConfigs.
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I'll have to look at it.  I should get a chance before the IRC meeting 
> on Monday.  We'll talk some about it then.

Ok.

Felix

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