Hello all, A recent patch by Chris, fixing some libudev fun in our loader, made me think if we can clear it up a bit.
Having three different ways of retrieving the vendor/device ID does feel a bit excessive. Plus as one gets fixed others are likely to break - and they do. So here is a summary of each method, from portability POV. - libudev: widely common across Linux distributions (but not all). - sysfs: written by Gary Wong to target GNU Hurd and *BSD. The *BSD folk never got to using it though :-\ - libdrm: used as a last resource fall-back after the above two. the sole option used by *BSD, MacOS and Android. libdrm seems like a nice middle ground that can be used everywhere. Which begs the question: from a technical POV, is there any advantage/disadvantage of using one over the other ? I do recall Kristian and Eric participating in this discussion before, but the only thing I can find is along the lines of "linux distros should be using libudev" :-( Can anyone shed a light/cast their 2c ? Thanks Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
