Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Dri-patches] CVS Update: xc (branch: mesa-4-1-branch)

[Jens O. <je...@tu...>]

Brian Paul wrote:
> Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
>> Brian Paul wrote:
>>
>>> CVSROOT:    /cvsroot/dri
>>> Module name:    xc
>>> Repository:    xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/tdfx/
>>> Changes by:    brianp@usw-pr-cvs1.    02/11/15 16:13:59
>>>
>>> Log message:
>>>   Modified functions in __DriverAPIRec to remove unneeded Display *
>>>   parameters, etc.  Generally try to reduce number of X dependencies
>>>   within the driver code.
>>>   Added driMajor/Minor/Patch fields to __DRIscreenPrivateRec and call
>>>   XF86DRIQueryVersion in dri_util.c instead of in all the drivers.
>>>   Lots of #include clean-ups.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian,
>>
>> Are there any forward/backward compatibility issues raised by this 
>> change?  We currently don't distribute libGL.so in the snapshots.  
>> However, I'm not averse to doing so, as long as new libGL.so's can be 
>> made to work with old driver.so's.

I have some concerns w/ doing this...see my earlier posting re:ATI and 
NVidia...

> 
> There are no compatibility issues.  All the changes I made were to the
> code that's compiled into each DRI driver, at a level below the libGL/
> driver interface layer.

Great.

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