[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] Introduce platform displays internally

[Chia-I Wu]

2010/6/22 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net>:
> I think the egl-drm-display branch looks good.  The platform display
> patch is definitely good to commit, and I don't see a problem in
> merging the entire egl-drm-display branch either.  As I said before, I
> was practically sold on the multi-egl idea, until I realized that the
> libEGL-drm.so dependency is pulled into higher level libraries that
> use EGL in a platform-independent way.  What you implemented in
> egl-drm-display is exactly what I would've done myself.
Great.  I will merge the branch.
> I'm still on the fence about -DMESA_EGL_NO_X11_HEADERS vs #include
> <egldrm.h>, that is, I think adding a new egldrm.h header file that
> defines the eglGetDRMDirsplayMESA() (and potentially DRM specific
> surface create functions) is a pretty clean approach as well.  In
> fact, I think that would make sense for X11 and the other existing
> platforms too.  Ideally, including egl.h wouldn't  define any native
> types or display/surface create functions.
I am fine with -DMESA_EGL_NO_X11_HEADERS or egldrm.h.  One idea I have is to
install egl-drm.pc.  Applications may check egl-drm.pc to define the macro
automatically, or know the existence of egldrm.h.
> But for now, egl-drm-display gets us what we want.  Thanks for taking this on.

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