On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Jimmy Berry <ji...@boombatower.com> wrote: > I have found myself desiring the ability to manipulate the GALLIUM_HUD > variable while an application is running. At the most basic simply > being able to toggle the hud on and off would be great. Otherwise, one > has to relaunch an application and get back to the same state which > may not always be trivial. > > Obviously there are a lot of other possibilities for such a mechanism > even manipulating other variables interactively. > > I discussed the idea with imirkin_ on #dri-devel who agreed that > something like a socket interface would be a reasonable way to > approach the problem, but suggested I toss out the idea on the mailing > list to acquire more thoughts. > > I have extensive development experience, but none in the kernel nor > mesa space. If desirable I would be interested in attempting to > implement this idea.
Hi, You don't need any kernel experience. Some Gallium experience may be required, but not much. See the HUD source code. I guess you've found it already. There is a list of panes you can change at runtime you want. Marek _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev