[Mesa3d-dev] glX TLS disabled by default?

tom fogal tfogal at alumni.unh.edu
Mon Nov 9 09:52:02 PST 2009


Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> writes:
> > From: Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net>
> > Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:51:13 -0500
> > 
> > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 16:29 -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> > 
> > > tom fogal wrote:
> > > > Is there any reason TLS for glX is disabled by default?
[snip]
> > > I vaguely recall there being some interaction with the X server.
> > > If Mesa is built for TLS, then the X server must also be built
> > > for TLS. [. . .]
> >
> > There's no intrinsic reason that the GLX loader couldn't support
> > both, I suppose, but it would be kind of lame. [plus selinux issue]
>
> Is the TLS you're talking about here an abreviation for Thread Local
> Storage?  If so then even OpenBSD doesn't have (sensible) support for
> it.

Yes, it is.

In the case that we're building against an X server, is there perhaps
some kind of configure-time test we could do?  Then the Mesa default
could be `autodetect' instead.

-tom


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