radeon/r200 color tiling ddx / drm questions
Ian Romanick
idr at us.ibm.com
Thu Jan 6 22:06:29 PST 2005
Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> The dri and drm seem fairly straightforward, though I'm not sure the way
> I handled communication between especially drm and ddx is how it's meant
> to be. dri got a bit unlucky, as ddx can't know at startup if it will be
> able to handle color tiling, so old dri together with new drm and new
> ddx will not work (correctly) (if you have enabled color tiling). All
> other combinations should however work if I didn't forget something.
If an "old" {radeon,r200}_dri.so is completely incompatible with the new
DDX, you need to bump the major version. When that happens the DRI
driver will bail when you try to load it.
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