Re: compiling fb_dri.c from CVS

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:11:14 +0300, Pierre TEMPLIER <tem...@es...> wrote:
> I'm trying to create a new DRI driver (software rendering). To do that
> i took fb (src/mesa/drivers/dri/fb) as a template for a minimal dri
> driver to create the driver.
> 
> Q: when i try to compile fb driver (fb_dri.c), i get the following
> errors :
> current/front/backBuffer are not present in structure
> __DRIDrawablePrivate
> Indeed this structure has no member call such as these ones, so why
> the function createContext in fb_dri.c tries to access these members ?
> 
> => is the file fb_dri.c out of date and did not refer to the latest
> definition of the structure?
> => or is there a second definition of this structure somewhere else in
> the tree ...?
> 
> I have the same problems with these members with the file s_spantemp.h
> which is included by fb_dri.c.
> 
> I did not take i8xx driver because the driver i want to write does not
> access hardware.

You might want to take a look at the r300 driver in cvs at
r300.sf.net.  right now it's all SW.
http://r300.sf.net
might be an easier starting point.

Alex

> 
> Regards,
> Pierre T.
>