new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-16 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 04:04:01PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > There are several problems with this: > > > > - I can't test other drivers > > > > - I don't have the knowledge or inclination to implement atomic semantics > > for everyone's favorite hardware, and without that there's little > >

new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-16 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:11:13PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > > The "I can't test it" argument doesn't fly with me, you are creating a > > new API that adds a useful feature, it should be possible to get a few > > other driver maintainers in

new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-16 Thread Dave Airlie
> There are several problems with this: > > - I can't test other drivers > > - I don't have the knowledge or inclination to implement atomic semantics > for everyone's favorite hardware, and without that there's little > point in doing the work. Some of my initial code was layered on top of >

new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-16 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > The "I can't test it" argument doesn't fly with me, you are creating a > new API that adds a useful feature, it should be possible to get a few > other driver maintainers interested, but also I'd hope that most of > the ideas for converting to

Re: new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-16 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 04:04:01PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > There are several problems with this: > > > > - I can't test other drivers > > > > - I don't have the knowledge or inclination to implement atomic semantics > > for everyone's favorite hardware, and without that there's little > >

Re: new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-16 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:11:13PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > > The "I can't test it" argument doesn't fly with me, you are creating a > > new API that adds a useful feature, it should be possible to get a few > > other driver maintainers in

Re: new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-16 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > The "I can't test it" argument doesn't fly with me, you are creating a > new API that adds a useful feature, it should be possible to get a few > other driver maintainers interested, but also I'd hope that most of > the ideas for converting to

Re: new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-15 Thread Dave Airlie
> There are several problems with this: > > - I can't test other drivers > > - I don't have the knowledge or inclination to implement atomic semantics > for everyone's favorite hardware, and without that there's little > point in doing the work. Some of my initial code was layered on top of >

new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-14 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 07:13:33AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > So this is a how to get new features pronouncement, > > >From what I can see people would like to have atomic interfaces for > pageflip and modesetting merged, > > Now how I think developing and merging these will work (i.e. do it > t

new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-14 Thread Dave Airlie
So this is a how to get new features pronouncement, >From what I can see people would like to have atomic interfaces for pageflip and modesetting merged, Now how I think developing and merging these will work (i.e. do it this way or don't bother) a) get an API you are happy with working, it does

Re: new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-14 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 07:13:33AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > So this is a how to get new features pronouncement, > > >From what I can see people would like to have atomic interfaces for > pageflip and modesetting merged, > > Now how I think developing and merging these will work (i.e. do it > t

new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-13 Thread Rob Clark
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: > So this is a how to get new features pronouncement, > > From what I can see people would like to have atomic interfaces for > pageflip and modesetting merged, > > Now how I think developing and merging these will work (i.e. do it > this way or

Re: new userspace API approaches atomic *

2012-12-13 Thread Rob Clark
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: > So this is a how to get new features pronouncement, > > From what I can see people would like to have atomic interfaces for > pageflip and modesetting merged, > > Now how I think developing and merging these will work (i.e. do it > this way or