[Mesa3d-dev] Re: library for cursors and mode setting

[Leen Toelen]

Jon Smirl wrote:

>--- Egbert Eich <eich at pdx.freedesktop.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Writing mode setting code is not easy. The stuff that is documented
>>in the specs consumes about 10 percent of your time. What is not
>>in documented provides the most grief. It would therefore be desirable
>>having to do this only once (Today we do it at least twice already-
>>in the Xserver and in the Linux kernel).
>>I would therefore *strongly recommend* we come up with a solution
>>that is usable everywhere: For everything that's interested in mode
>>setting both on Linux and non-Linux OSes.
>>    
>>
I'm talking about something I don't really understand here, but can't 
this library be written as a component of hal? I believe you can store 
capabilities in hal, and attach callbacks to it. So the mode setting 
library is called from hal, completely transparent for the application 
doing so. Of course, the library still has to be defined and written 
first, but it might be something to take into account.

Best regards,
Leen Toelen


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