[Mesa-dev] [Bug 38906] Mesa compilation failure if libudev development files are not installed.

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--- Comment #8 from Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> 2011-07-02 20:16:12 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
[snip]
> I don't think udev is a problematic requirement for embedded devices (I think
> it's hard to build one without), but one way you could go leaner is to drop the
> PCI ID -> driver maps and the libudev dependency, and instead provide a custom
> mechanism to map from fd to driver name.  I don't think that conflicts with gbm
> though, it could be a configure option if we wanted to do that, but as Benjamin
> said, nothing has changed in terms of dependencies or overhead from how the drm
> platform worked.
Both i915 and radeon kernel modules provides GETPARAM to get the PCI id. 
Combined with drmGetVersion, couldn't it be used as a reliable mean for PCI id
when libudev is not available?

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