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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:26:05 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:03:32AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> It's very hard to understand. It's similar to religion - I could
> easily apply your point to every reasonably low-level user space
> project out there. X for example. X needs to interact with KMS and
> DRI and whatdoiknow. So it'd be a perfect fit to pull into tools/,
> no?

The current development methodology of X11/mesa/v*api is catastrophic,
as the state of the linux graphics attest.  Having a functional
equivalent in tools would be an immense step forward, if simply by
having all the damn related code in the same place, but also because
of the interactions you cite.

  OG.