Native surface creation

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 12:37:01 PST 2005


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:32:29 -0500, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Friday 11 March 2005 15:06, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > If mode is changed this will generate a hal/dbus event but that isn't
> > implemented yet. Same if the list of modes changes via monitor
> > hotplug.
> 
> Mode change is something I haven't thought through completely yet.  GL doesn't
> really have a way to send notifications up to the app asynchronously, though
> EGL does give us a "context lost" error condition that can trigger at any
> time that might be good enough...
> 
> I really hesitate to be the guy that adds the first callback to GL though.

The hal/dbus event can go as high as you want. Maybe it would be
better if the upper layers caught it and sent it back down into EGL.

Works great with fbcon on current linus bk. Just start echoing the
various modes to mode and the console automatically adjusts.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com


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