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RFC Try to clean up proprietary OpenGL drivers

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Cover letter [Buildroot] [RFC 0/4] Try to clean up proprietary OpenGL drivers

J?r?me, All,

On 2015-01-23 11:57 +0100, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:

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On 2015-01-21 12:23 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller spake thusly:

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Until now, xorg-xserver depends on mesa3d to compile with GLX/DRI support. However, there was problem with proprietary OpenGL drivers. These ones depends on GLX/DRI support (so, they depends on mesa3d) and overwrite files provided by mesa3d (so, they conflict with mesa3d).

Thanks to opengl-registry, it is possible to change proprietary OpenGL drivers in real LibGL provider and compile GLX/DRI support using proprietary drivers instead of mesa3d.

Notice this series aim to highlight the problem described above. It does not aim to be upstreamed. It apply on top of Yann series about nvidia driver and my series about imx6 gpu driver.

J?r?me Pouiller (4):
nvidia-driver: Add gl.pc
gpu-viv-bin-mx6q: is a libgl provider
opengl-registry: Also provide DRI interface
xorg-server: Depends on libgl to enable DRI/GLX

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Finally, I am not too fond of bundling the dri header, neither in the OpenGL registry package, nor in any other package.

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An alternative would be to provide a prompt-less, stripped mesa3d package that woudl install only headers; [...]

So, I've pushed an updated series that does exactly that: add a mesa3d-headers package, which is responsible for providing gl.h (un-bundled from a previous series), dir_interface.h and dri.pc.

Thanks for the input! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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