Re: [Mesa3d-dev] plumbing for gallium swrast_dri.so

[Ian R. <id...@fr...>]

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George Sapountzis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I put some patches at
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~gsap7/mesa/log/?h=gallium-drisw that do
> the plumbing in order to build the swrast_dri wrapper around gallium
> instead of classic mesa. For reference, swrast_dri is the fallback
> driver loaded by libGL (with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE) and xserver. It
> must not link with libdrm, nor use any drm headers during building
> because it is also used on platforms without drm.
> 
> The branch is to the point where glxinfo runs and needs some glue with
> __DRIswrastLoaderExtension in order to show something other than black
> windows. The problem is that there seems to be two places where to put
> the glue, either in st/.../dri_drawable.c or in
> ws/.../swrast_drm_api.c . Can someone more familiar with gallium take
> a look at the branch and provide hints ?

If you're going to do this, please make a separate driver.  Call it
swrastg or something.  I use swrast for testing new core Mesa features
that I implement, and I don't want to be forced to muck about with
Gallium to do that.

Thanks.

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