Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-30 Thread Patrik Jakobsson
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: >>> Except in the cases where it doesn't do what you want, and possibly in >>> the future where it does less of what you want. You've started on a >>> slippery slope, and I'm stopping you before you make things worse. >>> >>> You are going to ha

Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-30 Thread Dave Airlie
>> Except in the cases where it doesn't do what you want, and possibly in >> the future where it does less of what you want. You've started on a >> slippery slope, and I'm stopping you before you make things worse. >> >> You are going to have to get SoC kernel drivers to add an ioctl that >> you ca

Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-30 Thread Patrik Jakobsson
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: >> The reason we (currently) use the dumb buffer interface is because it >> does pretty much exactly what we need it to, as we only want linear >> RGB buffers: > > Except in the cases where it doesn't do what you want, and possibly in > the futu

Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Airlie
> The reason we (currently) use the dumb buffer interface is because it > does pretty much exactly what we need it to, as we only want linear > RGB buffers: Except in the cases where it doesn't do what you want, and possibly in the future where it does less of what you want. You've started on a sl

Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-26 Thread Rob Clark
t; the technical side and those I really want to understand. > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Dave Airlie [mailto:airl...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 23 April 2013 21:29 >> To: Tom Cooksey >> Cc: dri-devel; Inki Dae >> Subject: Re: abuse of dumb ioctls

RE: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-24 Thread Tom Cooksey
age- > From: Dave Airlie [mailto:airl...@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 April 2013 21:29 > To: Tom Cooksey > Cc: dri-devel; Inki Dae > Subject: Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos > > > > > Having a flag to indicate a dumb buffer allocation is to be used as a > > s

Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-23 Thread Dave Airlie
> > Having a flag to indicate a dumb buffer allocation is to be used as a > scan-out buffer would be useful for xf86-video-armsoc. We're trying to > keep that driver as generic as possible and currently the main device- > specific bits are what flags to pass to DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB for > scan

Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-23 Thread Rob Clark
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Tom Cooksey wrote: >> It appears exynos is passing the generic flags from the dumb ioctls >> straight into the the GEM creation code. >> >> The dumb flags are NOT driver specific, and are NOT to be used in this >> fashion. Please remove this use of the flags from

RE: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-23 Thread Tom Cooksey
> It appears exynos is passing the generic flags from the dumb ioctls > straight into the the GEM creation code. > > The dumb flags are NOT driver specific, and are NOT to be used in this > fashion. Please remove this use of the flags from your driver. > > I was going to add one new flag to the i

Re: abuse of dumb ioctls in exynos

2013-04-17 Thread Inki Dae
Hi, Dave 2013/4/18 Dave Airlie > It appears exynos is passing the generic flags from the dumb ioctls > straight into the the GEM creation code. > > The dumb flags are NOT driver specific, and are NOT to be used in this > fashion. Please remove this use of the flags from your driver. > > Got it