Mesa, DRI framework questions..

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 10:45:34 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Mohan Parthasarathy <suruti94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 11:44 -0700, Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:
>> >
>> > 1) Mesa/src/glx/x11 is the same as in X-server branch under GL/glx. I
>> > am assuming that
>> >  the code in X-server is what should be used. Right ?
>>
>> Should be used for what? The former handles the client side aspects of
>> GLX while the latter handles the server side aspects.
>
>
> In a brief look, i thought that there were quite (or some?) a bit of common
> code.
> I will take another look.

There is some common code implementing the GL API. The canonical
source is mesa, and these files are generated in mesa/src/mesa/glapi
from python scripts. When changes are made, the common code is synced
into the xserver tree. In previous releases, these files were
symlinked from a user provided mesa tree.

--
Dan



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