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On Sunday 13 June 2004 20:22, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 10 o'clock on Jun 12, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > I am definitely in favor of the DRI X tree stuff being a branch on the
> > X.Org tree.
>
> "me too".
>
> A question is how the future modularization of the system would impact this
> process.  I'm hoping the answers will be "mostly positive", but discussion
> is welcome.
>
> -keith

Daniel Stone and I have been working on modularising the Xorg server in the 
nascent 'debrix' project.  Some cleanup to the lib{dri,drm,glx,GLcore} set 
will assuredly be necessary - if for no other reason than to make it work 
with the libdl-based module loader (bugs 377, 400, and 600 are relevant, in 
case anyone wants the details).  Since I'll be doing that anyway, I can push 
those changes to the DRI xc module until such time as we move to a branch off 
Xorg.

Note to DRI people: this _will_ break some ABIs, so some version adjustment 
will be necessary.  I don't think anyone's doing anything exciting on the 
server side, so that's not a huge deal, but it's an issue and I'd rather not 
see the same version number used to mean two different things.  Probably I'd 
branch off our tree and push debrix changes to that, merging once we're 
stable, and then anyone using the branch in the meantime would be doing so on 
the understanding that they'll lose any versioning fights.

Fixing up the server-side to load the *_dri.so modules instead of GLcore (and 
subsequently removing the GLcore module entirely) is also on my list.  Even 
with X as a GL app we'll still need a server-side component to handle the 
indirect rendering case, and I still want to see accelerated indirect 
rendering.  That will probably come later though.

Does this sound like a reasonable plan?

- - ajax
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