Re: [PATCH, RFC] stop neutering DRI

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Jesse Keating (jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > The DRI modules static link libGL, so this might be a problem.  Also,
> > given that the dri modules are statically linked, it's going to be a not
> > insubstantial space jump.  From a quick test, mksquashfs /usr/lib/dri is
> > 11 megs which is 10% of the size of stage2.  Which isn't necessarily the
> > end of the world, but it just continues to creep up various things.  It
> > might also make stage2 + kernel + initrd no longer fit on a 128 meg usb
> > key
> 
> I talked to ajax about that on the bus yesterday.  He thought he had a
> couple possible ways of getting rid of the static link in each driver,
> and just use a shared library (that's private).  That could save a
> significant amount of ondisk space, but not a change that any of us feel
> comfortable doing for F9 at this point.

That's fine with me... this can be something to look at for F10.

Bill

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