EGL_MESA_choose_display version 1

[Adam Jackson]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 17:37, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I'm looking at a future model where where there is one DRM/fb device
> per screen. fb is currently one per screen and DRM is one per card.
> I'll modify DRM to expose one per screen (these will all be pointing
> to the current DRM code there will just be multiple names). By having
> one fb/DRM device pair per screen we are opening up a path for having
> two independent user logged onto the two devices. We need two DRM
> device nodes since they will have different ownership permissions.
>
> There is no problem taking the list of card0,card1,etc and converting
> it to display/0, display/1,etc and then back again in the driver. But
> I do need these to represent screens not devices. Display is ambiguous
> as to whether it is a screen or device. Would screen/0, screen/1 be
> better?

I thought we had decided the semantics were one card : one display : N 
screens, and one EGLDisplay could hold one or multiple screen surfaces.

- ajax
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