Re: [Mesa3d-dev] New tdfx driver, locking, small device driver changes

[Gareth H. <ga...@va...>]

Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
> Brian Paul wrote:
> >
> > One more thing to consider: moving the locking to a higher level may make
> > debugging harder.  When the driver has the lock, the whole display is
> > locked so you'd have to debug from a different X display.  It would be nice
> > if we could choose between the two locking levels at compile time.  That
> > might be a bit ugly but could make life easier when debugging the driver.
> 
> This is feasible at compile-time, though I think that debugging remotely is
> the better approach in any case.

I agree - I speak from personal experience that debugging on the same
machine as you're running the DRI on is typically very difficult to do. 
I think the code will be significantly cleaner if we don't allow this
option at all.

-- Gareth