From: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
To: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use libudev for glx/dri3
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:33:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ABC365.1010001@whitecape.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528A7F6B.3020905@gmail.com>
On 11/18/2013 12:58 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 18/11/13 01:08, Keith Packard wrote:
>> libudev doesn't have a stable API/ABI, and if the application wants to use one
>> version, we'd best not load another into libGL.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
>> ---
>>
> Hi Keith,
>
> Did you had the chance to look at src/gallium/targets/egl-static/egl.c?
> It has a different implementation of drm_fd_get_pci_id, whenever udev is
> not available.
>
> AFAICS it goes back to the kernel via the relevant ioctl to retrieve the
> deviceid/chipid. Currently all but nouveau provide such information. I'm
> thinking that this approach might be more reasonable for those concerned
> with portability of the udev bits (think on *BSD).
>
> I'm not nitpicking, just thought you might find this interesting.
>
> Cheers,
> Emil
Possibly. But looking at that code, it either:
1. Uses libudev
2. On Android only...strcmps the driver string to guess the family and
then uses kernel ioctls...
3. Fails.
The Android only nature makes me a bit wary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-14 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-18 0:55 [PATCH] Don't use libudev for glx/dri3 Keith Packard
2013-11-18 1:08 ` Keith Packard
2013-11-18 1:31 ` Emil Velikov
2013-11-18 2:43 ` Keith Packard
2013-11-18 4:08 ` Kenneth Graunke
2013-11-18 6:03 ` Keith Packard
2013-11-18 21:59 ` Ian Romanick
2013-11-18 20:58 ` Emil Velikov
2013-11-19 6:46 ` Keith Packard
2013-12-14 2:33 ` Kenneth Graunke [this message]
2013-12-14 10:37 ` [Mesa-dev] " Daniel Vetter
2013-12-16 19:19 ` Eric Anholt
2013-12-16 19:57 ` [Mesa-dev] " Daniel Vetter
2013-11-19 18:41 ` Eric Anholt
2013-11-19 19:41 ` Keith Packard
2013-11-19 20:19 ` [Mesa-dev] " Eric Anholt
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