[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       freedesktop-xorg-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH xserver] glamor: Work around GEM usage
From:       Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom () vmware ! com>
Date:       2018-05-24 9:39:16
Message-ID: 65392ae5-d49d-6407-fed8-6fcfd8677ac9 () vmware ! com
[Download RAW message or body]

On 05/24/2018 11:03 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 23 May 2018 at 22:23, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 22:58:05 +0200
>>>
>>> On 05/23/2018 08:00 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 11:14 +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>>>>> KMS drivers are not required to support GEM. In particular, vmwgfx
>>>>> doesn't support flink and handles and names are identical.
>>>>> Getting a bo name should really be part of a lower level API, if needed,
>>>>> but in the mean time work around this by setting the name identical to
>>>>> the handle if GEM isn't supported.
>>>> I'd thought flink was old and busted anyway. Could this path just go
>>>> away?
>>>>
>>>> - ajax
>>> I guess it's needed for dri2? If all drivers using glamor are OK with
>>> dropping dri2, then that should be OK.
>> OpenBSD doesn't implement dri3 (yet)
> AFAICT other BSDs like FreeBSD, DragonFly and NetBSD are in the same boat.
>
> That said I think we should incentivise them to implement it sooner
> than later.
>
> -Emil

Then I think we need to live with the "Work around GEM usage" patch 
until that happens.

/Thomas


_______________________________________________
xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development
Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel
Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]