In article <284C1AFD-B34A-4258-9346-48D358AAAA08@shagadelic.org>,
	Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org> writes:
> I'm told the point of XFree's own built-in loader is so that IT  
> defines the ABI for the modules, and how they're loaded.

Which was good idea. I've seen people complaing on the XFree86 developer
list why they can't use "glibc" functions.

> This theoretically allows XFree modules for e.g. Linux load on NetBSD.

nVidia manages to work arround that nevertheless so their driver only
work on Linux.

> We already have DLOPEN_SUPPORT enabled for one of our platforms  
> (though I forget which one).

It's NetBSD-sgimips.

> Anyway, a DLOPEN_SUPPORT_ONLY option might be nice.

What would that be good for?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/