From: Jon S. <jon...@ya...> - 2003-07-24 21:12:23
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With embedded Mesa I now have driver objects (XXX_dri.so) that don't depend on X or X include files. What would it take to get XFree DRI to switch over to using these objects? I don't see any technical problems stopping this. Xfree just needs to adjust some glue code such as moving GLX references out of the drivers objects and back into XFree. Advantages: 1) The driver objects and Mesa could live in a single source tree - the Mesa one. 2) Driver objects could be released independent of XFree releases. 2) The driver objects can be used for other purposes such as DirectFB or standalone OpenGL. 3) This model provides a cleaner way of plugging in closed source OpenGL implementations. Am I missing something, are there big reasons not to do this? ===== Jon Smirl jon...@ya... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com |