[Mesa-dev] DRI2 pixmap swapping

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2011-12-07 at 09:44 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote: 
> > Indeed, but fixing it without invasive protocol work may be messy, but
> > I'm not really a GLX or DRI2 expert and its hard to fathom the
> > intentions of DRI2 original authors wrt this GLX case.
> 
> Also client side fixing is not in any way going to help broken clients
> that exist in the field now. i.e. all of them.

This cuts both ways: the same is true for unpatched X servers. In
particular, some kind of client side solution would be necessary to
correctly implement the GLX semantics on servers that only support
DRI2CopyRegion.


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