[Mesa-dev] New EGL extension in mesa and 'adriconf' packaging - EVoC'18

[Jean Hertel]

Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>As Veluri has noticed, I made a few comments earlier to his proposal/plans.
>Having a comprehensive configuration tool is a great task, although
>there is an underlying issue as pointed out [A].
>
>Or looking for a proper solution for [A]. Since that hack is for GLX
>and we will need something alike it EGL. Ideally, a lot less hacky.
>Sadly, resolving that is outside of my scope for the moment, but I am
>happy to answer questions ;-)
>
>[A]  https://github.com/jlHertel/adriconf/commit/9c1c98633faff7b6b15be443da5cb9d8e90c50dd#diff->e9ffd8eaf9c59af94bc9cef7564301e5R14

Hi Emil,

I think the biggest question here is: are we able to use only EGL and completely drop the Xlib calls even on a X.Org only application? 

If yes, then I think the best approach would be to make a EGL extension based on the two functions, and simply ignore the existing ones, so that backwars-compatibility stays the same.

Apart from xdriinfo, driconf and adriconf, I don't think any other application uses those two functions, but in any case I think is better to don't break things.

Kind Regards,
Jean Hertel