Hi, I'm getting ready to merge the DRI2 work and wanted to post a heads up to the lists. First of all, I'd like to point out that I'm landing will be experimental and initially miss some parts (direct rendering and page flipping), but it will coexist with the existing XF86DRI infrastructure and be an opt-in feature. In other words, if you don't explicitly enable DRI2 you shouldn't see any breakage. I'm adding a DRI2 option to the intel driver, so that specifying
Option "DRI2" in the Device section will make the intel DDX driver initialize against the DRI2 module instead of the XF86DRI module, and that will then propagate through GLX to the DRI driver, switching the entire stack to DRI2. Also, DRI2 is exclusively new API, so this shouldn't cause any^Wmore broken drivers. The DRI2 design is unchanged from when I sent out this mail: http://marc.info/?l=dri-devel&m=119827435904164&w=2 I'll commit a couple of patches to the server, adding a new DRI2 module and a new glxdri2 to GLX. There's a couple of mesa patches, one to add the general infrastructure and one to hook up the i915 driver. There's a drm patch to teach the kernel to work with the DRI2 sarea. Finally there's a patch to the intel DDX driver to make it initialize against DRI2 if requested. The DDX patch will be committed on the intel-batchbuffer branch of the intel driver, since it depends on those changes. There's still work to be done, but I feel like it's minimally useful now, and I've been fidgeting with these patches for long enough. It's disabled by default, but easy to enable and test for "early adopters", so I'm not too concerned about landing it in its current state. I'll be cleaning up the patches a bit and trying to split them up into a series of independent commits today and expect to commit tomorrow. If there are any objections, please let me know. cheers, Kristian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
