Re: [Dri-devel] Server-side GLX / DRI issues

[Philip B. <ph...@bo...>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:07:38PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> Philip Brown wrote:
> > The core X server should not be making calls into extension modules.
> > Extension modules should be making calls to xfree-exported functions.
> > If there arent sufficient xfree-exported functions, extend or add new ones.
> 
> The idea is that the X server and the 3D driver can use the same memory 
> manager for off-screen memory.  That way pixmap cache, textures, and 
> vertex buffers all get managed in the "same" way and share ALL of off 
> screen memory.

Yes, and existing core X server APIs allow that.

>  Currently, when DRI is enables, the pixmap cache is 
> very, very small, even if there are no 3D clients running.

Then DRI isnt behaving nicely, and should be a better "neighbour".
And/or, the 2d layer should be more practical about its use of
xf86AllocateOffscreenLinear()