[Xcb] To do

Jeremy Kolb jkolb at brandeis.edu
Wed Feb 2 10:49:29 PST 2005


Josh Triplett wrote:
> Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> 
>>Is there anything sort of easyish thing that needs to get done? Or
>>modifications to glx/randr that need doing?
> 
> 
> I think the best thing to focus on at the moment would be to fully
> review your GLX and RandR implementations and get them into the CVS
> repository.  Your RandR implemenation looks very good, though I haven't
>  yet compared it in detail to the RandR spec.  Your GLX implementation
> looks good as well, but there are a few minor issues that need to be
> dealt with, such as the missing lists on several requests/replies
> (Render and RenderLarge at a minimum, though there may be others).  I'd
> love to see your excellent work become part of XCB as soon as it can.
> 
> After that, I would suggest porting the "xrandr" utility as a test
> program for RandR; we could commit this to the xcb-demo module when
> done.  Porting Mesa would be a much larger task; not necessarily *hard*,
> but it would take a while.  In both cases, a direct translation from
> Xlib calls to XCB calls should theoretically be sufficient.  You may
> want to try building them on top of the XCB-based Xlib first, so that
> you can port a little at a time rather than all at once.
> 
> - Josh Triplett
> 
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I actually started to port xrandr over but then I got distracted by 
other things.

As for GLX I'll look into the missing lists.  If you find anything else 
in there or in RandR let me know and I'll fix it.

Jeremy


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