Adam Jackson wrote: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajax/xserver-shatter/log/?h=shatter-2008 > > I'll be pushing updates here as I go. Conceptual review, particularly > of the strategy documentation, is most welcome. > > Note that this is an ABI change: > >> @@ -478,8 +493,6 @@ typedef struct _Screen { >> CloseScreenProcPtr CloseScreen; >> QueryBestSizeProcPtr QueryBestSize; >> SaveScreenProcPtr SaveScreen; >> - GetImageProcPtr GetImage; >> - GetSpansProcPtr GetSpans; >> PointerNonInterestBoxProcPtr PointerNonInterestBox; >> SourceValidateProcPtr SourceValidate; > > So you will certainly need to rebuild your drivers if you expect to play > with this. There's no particularly strong reason for this to be a > break, I suppose, but we really do have a lot of things that would be > pleasant to fix with an ABI break (render arg reduction, MAXFORMATS, > etc.).
Forgive me for being dumb but what is shatter? I have read about this before but the details are fuzzy :) Is this something that will allow working around the 2048 DRI limit in 945GMs or is it related to the dual-GPU stuff that lappy vendors love so much these days? (or perhaps even both?) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
