RFC: X library package changes, dependancy changes, freedesktop.org xlibs, etc.

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Bill Nottingham wrote:

>> >Well, currently, the drivers all have information on what hardware
>> >they support included. *Unlike* the kernel drivers, they don't
>> >export this in a sane manner.
>> 
>> The drivers can be dlopen()'d and their functions called by other 
>> software.
>
>The functions aren't at all standard among drivers. I looked at
>this once. :)

loadmod.c in xf86cfg appears at least to do this, although it has 
some comments about the ati and vmware drivers.  Not sure if it 
does exactly what would be needed or not.



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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat