xfree86: compat: re-add TimeCheck() for proprietary nvidia driver

Yet another very internal function that the proprietary Nvidia driver
is using for unknown reasons.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <[email protected]>

Author: metux

hw/xfree86/compat/meson.build

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ srcs_xorg_compat = [
     'xf86Helper.c',
 ]
 
+if get_option('legacy_nvidia_340x')
+    srcs_xorg_compat += 'timercheck.c'
+endif
+
 xorg_compat = static_library('xorg_compat',
     srcs_xorg_compat,
     dependencies: common_dep,

hw/xfree86/compat/timercheck.c

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#include <dix-config.h>
+
+#include <X11/Xfuncproto.h>
+
+#include "os/osdep.h"
+
+#include "xf86_compat.h"
+
+/*
+ * needed for NVidia proprietary driver 340.x versions
+ * force the server to see if any timer callbacks should be called
+ *
+ * this function had been obsolete and removed long ago, but NVidia folks
+ * still didn't do basic maintenance and fixed their driver
+ */
+
+_X_EXPORT void TimerCheck(void);
+
+void TimerCheck(void) {
+    xf86NVidiaBugObsoleteFunc("TimerCheck()");
+
+    DoTimers(GetTimeInMillis());
+}

meson_options.txt

@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ option('devel-docs', type: 'combo', choices: ['true', 'false', 'auto'], value: '
 option('docs-pdf', type: 'combo', choices: ['true', 'false', 'auto'], value: 'auto',
         description: 'Whether to build PDF version of documentation. Setting is ignored if documentation is not built.')
 
+# legacy nvidia driver quirks
+option('legacy_nvidia_340x', type: 'boolean', value: true,
+        description: 'Extra entrypoints for old Nvidia 340x proprietary driver')
+
 # testsuite fine tuning - some things might not run everywhere
 option('test_rendercheck_triangles', type: 'boolean', value: false,
        description: 'testsuite: run rendercheck triangles tests (might fail on Xephyr)')

os/WaitFor.c

@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ struct _OsTimerRec {
 };
 
 static void DoTimer(OsTimerPtr timer, CARD32 now);
-static void DoTimers(CARD32 now);
 static void CheckAllTimers(void);
 static volatile struct xorg_list timers;
 
@@ -276,8 +275,7 @@ DoTimer(OsTimerPtr timer, CARD32 now)
         TimerSet(timer, 0, newTime, timer->callback, timer->arg);
 }
 
-static void
-DoTimers(CARD32 now)
+void DoTimers(CARD32 now)
 {
     OsTimerPtr  timer;
 

os/osdep.h

@@ -219,4 +219,7 @@ Ones(unsigned long mask)
 }
 #endif
 
+/* run timers that are expired at timestamp `now` */
+void DoTimers(CARD32 now);
+
 #endif                          /* _OSDEP_H_ */