[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/3] dri: Require libudev-dev for building DRI on Linux.

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:16:05 +0200
Lauri Kasanen <cand at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:46:21 -0800
> Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> 
> > The loader infrastructure for everything but DRI2 requires that udev be
> > present, so we can figure out an appropriate driver from the fd.  We don't
> > have a portable solution yet, but presumably it will similar lookup based
> > on the device node.
> > 
> > It will also be even more required for krh's udev-based hwdb support,
> > which lets us have a loader that actually loads DRI drivers not included
> > in the loader's source distribution.
> > ---
> 
> This would break several systems that have worked for years. Please
> don't.

Forgot to mention, this would appear to make 3d impossible without udev
(ie, static devices, mdev, or other solutions).

- Lauri