EGL_MESA_choose_display version 1

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 15:27, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/15/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > From version 9 of EGL_MESA_screen_surface:
> >
> >     EGLBoolean eglGetScreensMESA(EGLDisplay dpy, EGLScreenMesa *screens,
> >                                  EGLint screens_size, EGLint
> > *num_screens);
> >
> > If we're doing one screen per display then why do we even have this call
> > and why did you fight so hard [1] to make screen handles opaque and
> > dynamic?  If you do one EGLDisplay per screen then *num_screens will
> > always be 1, won't it?
>
> I'm just making one screen per display in my drivers. I'm designing my
> drivers to be able to split a single card between two users, other
> driver developers may not want to do that. Nothing in EGL is forcing
> this model onto other driver writers.
>
> Now that I think about it, since I have one screen per display it is
> ok to use display/0, display/1, etc. From my side I think in terms of
> screens and I forgot that there was a 1:1 correspondence.

Right, I think we were just using the word "screen" to mean different things.

So, display/n for a transport sounds good to me.  I'll add that to the next 
revision and send that out in a day or so.

- ajax
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