Mesa (master): egl/main: Update README.txt
Emil Velikov
evelikov at kemper.freedesktop.org
Thu May 14 20:02:00 UTC 2015
Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 97909881234dc32fdbe2baa889997af540c4464e
URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=97909881234dc32fdbe2baa889997af540c4464e
Author: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
Date: Mon May 11 23:43:46 2015 +0100
egl/main: Update README.txt
The driver search/load is not done at eglGetDisplay (or eglOpenDisplay
as the readme called it) time, but during eglInitialize().
Drop _eglMain (available only for external drivers) reference. Mention
we use function(s), specific to the built-in driver(s).
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Chad Versace <chad.versace at intel.com>
---
src/egl/main/README.txt | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/egl/main/README.txt b/src/egl/main/README.txt
index b3d253d..1af9959 100644
--- a/src/egl/main/README.txt
+++ b/src/egl/main/README.txt
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ The EGL code here basically consists of two things:
Bootstrapping:
-When the apps calls eglOpenDisplay() a device driver is selected and loaded
-(look for dlsym() or LoadLibrary() in egldriver.c).
+When the apps calls eglInitialize() a device driver is selected and loaded
+(look for _eglAddDrivers() and _eglLoadModule() in egldriver.c).
-The driver's _eglMain() function is then called. This driver function
+The built-in driver's entry point function is then called. This driver function
allocates, initializes and returns a new _EGLDriver object (usually a
subclass of that type).
@@ -30,10 +30,9 @@ driver->API.Initialize and driver->API.Terminate _must_ be implemented
with driver-specific code (no default/fallback function is possible).
-A bit later, the app will call eglInitialize(). This will get routed
-to the driver->API.Initialize() function. Any additional driver
-initialization that wasn't done in _eglMain() should be done at this
-point. Typically, this will involve setting up visual configs, etc.
+Shortly after, the driver->API.Initialize() function is executed. Any additional
+driver initialization that wasn't done in the driver entry point should be
+done at this point. Typically, this will involve setting up visual configs, etc.
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