slides from my talk at DDC

[Dave Airlie]

> >
> > I think the EGL_MESA_screen_surface extension we've been drafting on the
> > dri-egl list is a pretty good approach (and if anyone disagrees, it's
> > still open for discussion :). It might make sense to design the mode
> > setting library API concurrently with that to make sure they're a good
> > match.
> >
> 
> Yes I'm just reading over it now and I think it probably is a good a
> place to start as any other, if we make it compatible with
> EGL_MESA_screen_surface then life would be certainly easier...
> 
> The only thing I think we need on top of that (I didn't see it in any
> case) is a set of callbacks of some type from the modesetting library
> to the users for things like dynamic reconfiguration of screens...
>

I've just started a wiki page at http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModeSetting 

I'd like to get the API requirements list to be complete first, and
solve any open questions on the API, the initial implementation isn't
something we need to worry about yet... I'm all about APIs :-)

Dave.