[PATCH v2] Add -iglx & +iglx to Xserver.man

Robert Morell rmorell at nvidia.com
Wed Nov 26 15:07:14 PST 2014


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 01:06:52PM -0800, James Jones wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 01:01 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Covers the current state after commits 99f0365b1fbdfd9238b9f,
> > d0da0e9c3bb8fe0cd4879, & e3aa13b8d63ea2fba6eb4 were all applied.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> > ---
> >
> > v2: Made claims about what Indirect GLX supports more vague yet more
> >      accurate than before, at the suggestion of Robert & James.
> >      Also dropped note about compatibility with third-party GLX modules,
> >      since they should add support as part of their 1.17 ABI updates.
> >
> >   man/Xserver.man |   10 ++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/man/Xserver.man b/man/Xserver.man
> > index c03830c..3bf844f 100644
> > --- a/man/Xserver.man
> > +++ b/man/Xserver.man
> > @@ -181,6 +181,16 @@ prints a usage message.
> >   .B \-I
> >   causes all remaining command line arguments to be ignored.
> >   .TP 8
> > +.B \-iglx
> > +Prohibit creating indirect GLX contexts.  Indirect GLX is of limited use,
> > +since it lacks support for many modern OpenGL features and extensions;
> > +it's slower than direct contexts; and it opens a large attack surface for
> > +protocol parsing errors.
> > +This is the default unless +iglx is specified.
> > +.TP 8
> > +.B +iglx
> > +Allow creating indirect GLX contexts.
> > +.TP 8
> >   .B \-maxbigreqsize \fIsize\fP
> >   sets the maximum big request to
> >   .I size
> >
> 
> Reviewed-by: James Jones <jajones at nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Robert Morell <rmorell at nvidia.com>


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