On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giova...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Some time ago I sent patches to enable the swrast driver on > GBM/DRM, and I did them in the dumbest way possible (that is, > having GBM implement the dri-swrast interface), to make sure > it would work without kernel support. > This patch series is a little smarter, in that it creates > more than one KMS buffer and has llvmpipe render directly > into the KMS buffer, so we don't need to copy from the back > to the shadow (before the kernel copies from the shadow to > the front). > > For background, this is necessary to get mutter-wayland running > inside VMs such as gnome-continuous, which has a qxl DRM driver. > mutter-wayland only has a KMS/EGL rendering backend, and we > have no intention to add pixman or fbdev. > GNOME bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728059 > > The older patches were > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2014-March/055113.html > I can rebase if so is desired.
I actually did something similiar that was qxl specific before, (qxl-dri2-driver in my repo, though it had some problems I can barely remember now), the only question I have is what does this produce? another swrast_dri.so? and will it have any affect on current scenarios? Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
