DRI2 Heads up

[Colin Guthrie]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a quick, last-minute note on the state of DRI2 before I take
> off for 2 weeks of vacation.  I just pushed the updated protocol+docs
> to dri2proto and updated mesa, xserver and the dri2 branch of
> xf86-video-intel with the corresponding changes.  What's implemented
> here is the lowest level of support that we've discussed: none vsync
> handling or page-flipping idea we've discussed are there yet.  What is
> in place is the basic DRI2CopyRegion request, and more importantly,
> the mechanism for adding further args and return values to that
> request in later DRI2 revisions.
> 
> I think we can merge the dri2 branch to master in xf86-video-intel
> now, since it still requires an Option "DRI2" in xorg.conf to enable
> and the APIs and protocol feels like they're in place at this point.
> But since I don't expect to be back online and help with merging
> issues until November, I can understand if we want to hold off on
> that.  Either way, please have a look and hopefully we can sort this
> out next month at least.

\o/ this is why I love intel gfx. The real innovation seems to be coming 
from this camp even if some of the other manuf. have more powerful chips 
etc. Good work.

Col

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