On 17 October 2017 at 18:04, Kai Wasserbäch <k...@dev.carbon-project.org> wrote: > Hey Eric, > Eric Engestrom wrote on 17.10.2017 18:31: >> On Tuesday, 2017-10-17 15:26:00 +0000, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: >>> So far the Mesa-internal EGL driver "dri2" returned "DRI2" as its driver >>> name. This causes confusion, because there is a kernel interface by the >>> same name where a version 3 is available. >> >> What confusion? Do you have an example? >> >> I'm not really opposed to a change, but I don't see the benefit, >> especially of just adding this "MESA-" prefix... > > well, reading „EGL version string: 1.5 (DRI2)“ when calling eglinfo I assumed > that DRI3 was somehow not working on my setup (see > <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2017-October/014544.html>, > which > I've included in the commit message). Michel then cleared up, that the > interface > meant by the EGL version string is an internal Mesa interface which has > nothing > to do with the more widely known X11 protocol extension. > > So I thought it best to clearly separate them. Ideally this internal interface > wouldn't be called "dri" at all, but I that's probably going a bit too far. > Yes name is a bit misleading, so I'm wondering if any of the following won't be better - s/DRI2/DRI/ - might be tad confusing - emit the corresponding DRI2 vs DRI3 - ideally, but might be fiddly to get sorted - drop DRI2 all together - the other backends (glx yes glx and gallium) are long gone
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