xserver 1.20 RC1 tomorrow

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Wed Feb 28 15:23:06 UTC 2018


On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 00:42 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 27 February 2018 at 21:59, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > 2) https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/27289/
> > DRI3 v1.2. Has some ABI changes, but none that are essential, the old
> > single-fd API can either be kept as is, or implemented in terms opf the
> > new multiple-fd API.
> 
> Perhaps I'm being dense, but I can't see that this does have driver
> ABI changes? The old single-plane hooks are still in place, and the
> core has helpers to call them if possible (single-plane, no modifier,
> driver doesn't have newer hook). We do change the helper to be
> multi-FD rather than single FD, but that's just in dri3_priv.h, so
> presumably not ABI?

D'oh, you are correct. I was grepping for dri3_pixmap_from_fd and
didn't notice they were all substring matches.

- ajax


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