On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This is just an idea that might or might not be a good idea, > it basically adds two ioctls to create a dumb and map a dumb buffer > suitable for scanout. The handle can be passed to the KMS ioctls to create > a framebuffer. > > It looks to me like it would be useful in the following cases: > a) in development drivers - we can always provide a shadowfb fallback. > b) libkms users - we can clean up libkms a lot and avoid linking > to libdrm_*. > c) plymouth via libkms is a lot easier. > > Userspace bits would be just calls + mmaps. We could probably > mark these handles somehow as not being suitable for acceleartion > so as top stop people who are dumber than dumb. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Looks pretty reasonable. One thing from the IRC conversation on v2 was about cursors -- were they going to be handled through this patch? ~ C. -- When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ~ Keynes Corbin Simpson <MostAwesomeDude@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
