[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Add DRIimage-based DRI3/Present loader

[Keith Packard]

Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> writes:

> It seems like we could just stick these things in __DRI_CORE as opposed
> to having another new extension to look up.

Having the driver expose this new extension is how I tell that the
driver is going to actually call the __DRIimage-based loader; the
alternative to a new extension would be to stick a flag in the
__DRI_CORE structure.

> The downside I see there is
> bugs in the server, which have patches at xserver-driinterface-versions
> of my tree.  (Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time building the server
> currently, so no testing yet).  Having a new extension whose name has
> nothing to do with the functions in it seems really weird.

It defines the interface to a driver which will be using the image
loader to allocate color buffers if available. The fact that the image
loader and DRI2 loader can both share the same driver interface is a
happy coincidence.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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