On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:01, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > The main goal is to get a working DRI that has the new API, and maby some gatos > bells and > whistles. I'm assuming you read my post that recent DRI is to different from gatos. > My plan was > to diff gatos and DRI and weed ought all the changes that where depreciated. With > that patch one > could create the new DRI.
I'm afraid it's not that simple, some new code needs to be written to be able to merge the two. > It seams as thought some of the developers are interested in making the > new DRI backwards compatible. More than that, backwards compatibility is a requirement, otherwise the DRM gets kicked out of the kernel by Linus. > -- Laurent Pinchart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was also wondering if the move to the Gatos memory layout should not take > > into account the possible separation between X and the DRI (there have been > > several mails on this mailing list about splitting X and the DRI, and having > > X use OpenGL as its low-level API). Just my 2 cents... > > > There plan was to have a portable common driver, I don't see why this driver can't > use the new API > :). In fact, in the proposed solution (have you gotten any feedback on it by the GATOS people yet?), the DRM can fix up the difference between what the 3D driver thinks the memory layout is and what it actually is. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
