Am 07.08.2014 00:10, schrieb Eric Anholt:
> Roland Scheidegger <srol...@vmware.com> writes:
>
>> Am 06.08.2014 22:33, schrieb Eric Anholt:
>
>>> + * When building using the simulator (on x86), we advertise ourselves as
>>> the
>>> + * i965 driver so that you can just make a directory with a link from
>>> + * i965_dri.so to the built vc4_dri.so, and point LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH to
>>> that
>>> + * on your i965-using host to run the driver under simulation.
>>> + *
>>> + * This is, of course, incompatible with building with the ilo driver, but
>>> you
>>> + * shouldn't be building that anyway.
>>> + */
>>> +PUBLIC const __DRIextension **__driDriverGetExtensions_i965(void)
>>> +{
>>> + globalDriverAPI = &galliumdrm_driver_api;
>>> + return galliumdrm_driver_extensions;
>>> +}
>>> +#endif
>> I have no idea how that simulator works, but this looks like a fairly
>> gross hack to me. Couldn't you use something similar to how the software
>> based drivers are loaded or anything like that?
>
> I need a DRI fd and normal DRI buffer management from a host x server
> (which I interact with using the dumb ioctls). Are you thinking of
> something that would provide that in a simpler way?
>
Honestly I've no idea - that's an area I never really looked into...
Just thinking there should be some nicer way to achieve this, if there
isn't maybe we should think about adding it.
Roland
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