Today I wanted to see if I can build mesa on FreeBSD. I had to do a few fixes in the code of libdrm and mesa, but the rest of the process was very similar to the steps I follow to build mesa on Linux. Only some paths and a few commands and settings had to be slightly different.
Tag: drm
How to create a gbm buffer under X.
To create a GBM buffer you first need to create a drm device and then use its device descriptor to create a gbm device. To do this under X you need a way to tell xserver which device you use to avoid permission issues. Here’s an example where I create a gbm buffer under X and then authenticate to the X server: