Re: [PATCH, RFC] stop neutering DRI

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On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:10 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

And applied as is for now.  Although it'd be nice to get to where we're
not explicitly listing the modules before F10 (#446126)

Jeremy

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