[Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH 2/2] auxiliary: use vl_drm_screen_create method for surfaceless

[Emil Velikov]

On 24 October 2017 at 02:26, Sharma, Deepak <Deepak.Sharma at amd.com> wrote:
> Hi Emil,
>
> Is your suggestion is to build mesa in chrome using --with-platforms=drm and --with-platforms=surfaceless both ? I am not sure if that is required for chrome.
> The approach we are taking here is to build mesa only with --with-platforms=surfaceless and leverage existing
> VA_DISPLAY_DRM* to get VAAPI working on Chrome for platform.
>
My suggestion is to fix the problem instead of working around it.

> Thus the solution here really is:
>  - decouple the link-time dependency to a (once-off) runtime one
>  - and(?) demote the configure error to a warning ;-) Right?
>
The goal ^^

Note I'm talking about the GBM link-time dependency in EGL.
Just use a dlopen(RTLD_LOCAL | RTLD_NOW) /dlsym/dlclose.

> While we're there we could/should:
>  - drop the (first_pointer == gbm_create_device) hack Replace with dladdr(first_pointer, &info) + strcmp(info.dli_sname,
> "gbm_create_device") combo
>  - make egl_dri2.c free of calls into gbm - only gbm_device_destroy remains Move the remaining gbm_device_destroy to platform_drm.c
>
^^ some implementation suggestions, although you can handle it otherwise.

> Bonus points:
>  - Add ABI and/or version check for Mesa GBM <> EGL interop.
>
^^ completely optional, related work.

-Emil