libdrm issues blocking accelerated indirect GL

[Jon Smirl]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:03:56 -0500, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > If we proceed down the X on
> > GL path this problem would go away since X would stop using libdrm.
> 
> No, it won't.  For X on GL, the server still loads a DRI driver.  It's just
> already loaded early during eglCreateContext or whatever, rather than loaded
> explicitly by libglx.  The server still needs to be a window system for the
> 5000 GLX applications that already exist, and we'll still want to be able to
> do accelerated indirect GLX.

I meant that X on GL would stop directly using libdrm, the server
process would still use it indirectly via the dri.so's.

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Jon Smirl
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