On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 17:49, Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote: > > Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi Eric, > > > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 17:39, Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote: > >> > >> This allows vc4 to initialize on the Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" touchscreen with > >> the new tinydrm driver I just submitted. If this series extending the > >> pl111/kmsro driver is accepted, then I'll extend kmsro with the other > >> tinydrm drivers as well. > > > > Have you considered teaching the DRI loader about this? Unlike the > > tegra driver there's nothing special going on here. > > Create a dumb buffer on the DC, export as dmabuf and let the GPU draw into > > it. > > The problem with modifying mesa's loaders, as I mentioned in my other > reply, is that it means you need to update the xserver's loader and get > that deployed everywhere, as well.
Agreed that retroactively fixing X isn't fun. At the same time, with the config file suggestion in mind, it's a one off change that will make code size and maintenance a lot easier. We've already handled that with mega drivers and it turned out just fine. -Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
