CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

[Thomas Hellström]

Hi!

Donnie Berkholz wrote:

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>Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
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>>CVSROOT:	/cvs/xorg
>>Module name:	xc
>>Changes by:	unichrome at gabe.freedesktop.org	05/06/28 15:49:21
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>>Log message:
>>  Restructure Via XvMC for multiple hardware drivers.
>>  Make Via XvMC use the DRI protocol for efficient drawable handling,
>>  overlay updates and initialization.
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>>Added files:
>>      xc/lib/XvMC/hw/via/:
>>        driDrawable.c driDrawable.h xf86dri.c xf86dri.h 
>>        xf86dristr.h 
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>All the xf86* files seem very similar to the ones in lib/GL/glx. Is that
>going to change at some point, or can this seeming duplication be
>reduced at all?
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>Thanks!
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I was planning to start using libdrm as soon as it is available and gets 
installed in /usr/X11R6/lib.
However, as libdrm is an interface to the kernel, this won't include the 
xf86dri protocol definition files, which are very similar to the ones in 
lib/GL/glx, but the latter have been slightly modified to include some 
types from Mesa. This change needs to be reverted first.

One could move out xf86dri* and create a shared library libdriclient.so, 
which was discussed on the dri-devel list. This would require some Mesa 
changes. The reason I cannot use a symlink is that this causes a symbol 
clash with strange errors in xine where both libGL and libXvMCW are 
loaded by different drivers.

A proposal for a shared library is on my todo-list.

/Thomas