On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Daniel. > >> > > Based on the above, would it be possible to utilise some >> > > of these features without any dedicated userspace (mesa) support? >> > > Any other driver that has something similar that can be used >> > > for inspiration? >> > >> > This is really an interesting question indeed. >> >> Needs userspace like everything else. There's unfortunately no real >> standard for 2d apis in userspace, which means none of these efforts go >> very far. Mostly it's just some custom-made X drivers. >> >> Adding a generic 2d api to drm is a FAQ, and the answer is "no". > > And then you went off writing a blog post about it - thanks. > The blog post provided a lot of useful answers - great. Yeah I figured more detail than this here would be good, but also wanted to avoid having to retype that ever again. > (Or rather you will write the blog in 5 days, seems to be some time > machine involved. (Date is the 27th below the title)). My blog platform pulled one on me - pushed it out with a future date, with the idea to proof-read a bit more. Didn't work, so everyone read the slightly draft-ish version :-/ In the past this did work, and was very neat. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
