On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> - better for tracing, can identify the buffer/fence promptly > > Can fences be reused somehow while still attached to a plane, or ever? > That might cause some oddness if you, say, leave a fence attached to one > plane and then do a modeset on another crtc perhaps which needs to turn > the first crtc off+on to reconfigure something. Fences auto-disappear of course and don't stick around when you duplicate the drm_plane_state again. I still don't really get the real concerns though ... In the end it's purely a transport question, and both ABI ideas work out semantically exactly the same in the end. It's just that at least in my opinion FENCE_FD prop is a lot more convenient. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
