Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Barry Scott wrote:

> I have a via driver (Unichrome from last November plus patches) that works 
> very well on
> 4.5.0. It supports XVIDEO that the standard XFree86 driver does not support.

> I can build and use this same driver code is a trivia patch under 4.6.0 but 
> xvinfo reports
> that there is an XVIDEO adapters.

> Looking at the diffs of the xfree86 via driver between 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 I seem 
> to see that
> all that changed, apart from new features, is loader stuff:

> -        LoaderRefSymLists(vgaHWSymbols,
> +    LoaderModRefSymLists(module,
> +                 vgaHWSymbols,

> Do I need to make these loader changes to get correct operation or does your 
> fallback code
> work correctly in all cases?

> Where should I look to debug why XVIDEO is not showing up under 4.6.0?

This would be answered by your subsequent query about the XvExtension 
symbol's disappearance.

Marc.

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