Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [RFC] gallium-winsys-handle branch merge

[Keith W. <ke...@vm...>]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 20:46 -0800, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> Howdy
> 
> I'm hoping to merge the gallium-winsys-handle branch to master this
>  weekend or early next week. The branch adds two new pipe screen
>  functions to be used by the co state tracker (state tracker manger in
>  new st_api.h speak). The branch also adds a new
>  PIPE_TEXTURE_USAGE_SHARABLE flag telling the driver that the driver
>  that the texture might be used for sharing. Even more so it also
>  renames PIPE_TEXTURE_USAGE_PRIMARY to PIPE_TEXTURE_USAGE_SCANOUT just
>  to make things clear. I also ported the egl,xorg,dri state trackers to
>  the new interface and removing unneeded functions from drm_api making
>  it even smaller, however I only ported i915g, i965 and svga to the new
>  API. Looking at the commits where I port the other drivers it should
>  be pretty clear what to do.

Jakob,

I think it's probably best if you make an attempt at the changes to the
other drivers and then ask people to test your changes.  This is how
we've been doing other interface changes and it seems to be a good
balance.

Keith