Re: [DEPRECATION] Fullscreen entrypoints in DRI protocol

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

On 9/11/05, Adam Jackson <aj...@nw...> wrote:
> The OpenFullScreen and CloseFullScreen requests in the DRI protocol are
> deprecated in the client for some time now (shipped disabled in Xorg 6.7 =
and
> later, and in XFree86 4.5; initially disabled in the old DRI tree about 2=
1
> months ago).  As far as I know these functions are intended to be
> driver-internal, and no driver currently available will call them.
>=20
> However, the server-side implementation remains.  Removing it would cut a=
bout
> 200 lines from the generic DRI support and another 100 or so spread acros=
s
> various drivers.  Only the savage driver has non-trivial FullScreen hooks=
,
> which appear to have come straight from the S3 code drop, and were commit=
ted
> after libGL had the FullScreen calls disabled.  There's also some abortiv=
e
> SLI support in the tdfx driver that would have been activated when enteri=
ng
> fullscreen, but that code has never been enabled.  As far as nm can tell =
me,
> none of the closed DRI drivers (fglrx, powervr, 3dlabs wildcat, xgi)
> implement the FullScreen hooks, so this code looks to be totally dead.

The savage fullscreen stuff was left in for reference on how to do
pageflipping as I recall.

Alex

>=20
> So I'd like to drop the server-side support, and if anyone thinks it's wo=
rth
> keeping I'd like them to speak up.
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> - ajax
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