[patch] New mapping type _DRM_CONSISTENT

[Jon Smirl]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:05:49 +0200, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:27:02 +0200, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > Isn't xf86drm.h supposed to live in drm/libdrm? Or has that been converted yet?
> > >
> > > There seem to be two copies of it floating around in the Xorg tree. The
> > > header file that gets used (in the Savage driver) is definitely the one
> > > in os-support. When I commit this I'm going to change both.
> >
> > Are you going to remove the copies is in the xorg tree? I hate having
> > copies of things around. It's a sure path to bugs when one gets
> > patches and another doesn't.
> 
> I'm in no position to remove anything from the Xorg tree. I'm CCing to
> xorg at freedesktop.org. Can anyone there shed some light on the status if
> libdrm?
> 
> Background: there is the (supposedly new) libdrm in extras/drm/libdrm
> and there are copies of (mostly) the same files on
> programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support. Is one of the copies going to be
> removed?

I think this is one of Ian's DRI/mesa source convergence projects that
never got finished. drm/libdrm has been in DRM since December, 1999.

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Jon Smirl
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