Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> writes: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Kenneth Graunke <kenn...@whitecape.org> > wrote: >> On 11/18/2013 12:58 PM, Emil Velikov wrote: >>> On 18/11/13 01:08, Keith Packard wrote: >>>> libudev doesn't have a stable API/ABI, and if the application wants to use >>>> one >>>> version, we'd best not load another into libGL. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> >>>> --- >>>> >>> Hi Keith, >>> >>> Did you had the chance to look at src/gallium/targets/egl-static/egl.c? >>> It has a different implementation of drm_fd_get_pci_id, whenever udev is >>> not available. >>> >>> AFAICS it goes back to the kernel via the relevant ioctl to retrieve the >>> deviceid/chipid. Currently all but nouveau provide such information. I'm >>> thinking that this approach might be more reasonable for those concerned >>> with portability of the udev bits (think on *BSD). >>> >>> I'm not nitpicking, just thought you might find this interesting. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Emil >> >> Possibly. But looking at that code, it either: >> 1. Uses libudev >> 2. On Android only...strcmps the driver string to guess the family and >> then uses kernel ioctls... >> 3. Fails. >> >> The Android only nature makes me a bit wary. > > The string mapping of the kernel driver name to a dri.so is what I > kinda expected to be used as the generic thing
[snip] There is more than one userspace driver per kernel driver. (i915 vs i965, for example)
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