On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:39 +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 20:14 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 09:24 +0200, Joakim Sindholt wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 17:58 +0200, Fabio wrote: > > > > Can the patches at > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2011-August/011099.html > > > > be considered for merging? > > > > > > > > Sharing libgallium should save some MB of installed space. > > > > > > And be an ABI nightmare for distributions > > > > No; it's a private library. Distributions will happily ship a > > libgallium built from exactly the same source that the DRI drivers are > > built from. Indeed, that's what currently happens for those > > distributions with ship with --enable-shared-dricore, and what happens > > in Ubuntu, where we've got this patch series applied in our never-ending > > quest to cram a fully-featured linux system on a 700MB CD. > > > > Saving 20-odd megabytes is really useful there :) > > An alternative would be to build all the drivers into a single library > for maximal sharing.
Yeah, that would be another option. It's more invasive though, which is one of the reasons why I didn't do it first. As far as I can tell it requires a new API between the libGL and the loaded DRI driver - or just having a monolithic libGL - with concomitant changes to the X server. That's not impossible, but is more difficult.
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