On 23 November 2016 at 18:45, Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 23 November 2016 at 07:26, Christian Gmeiner >> <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Add an API to pass the timeout value (ns) from pipe->fence_finish(..) >>> to the kernel. The current API accepts ms and special handling is needed >>> for PIPE_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. >>> >>> The idea is not to break old mesa (out-of-tree) + new libdrm. It may be >>> possible to break etnaviv's ABI as the gallium driver is not upstream yet >>> but I am quite unsure whats the best solution. >>> >> I'm kind of split with a small inclination towards "break it" ;-) > > fwiw, I suggested the "don't break it" approach.. in the early days of > a new FOSS gfx driver, it is hard enough for end users to pull > together the right combination of trees to make things work, so lets > not make it harder for them. In the end, a FOSS driver is to enable > the users ;-) > Which is kind of but not the same the thing I've mentioned - check if driver devs/users have a preference and go ahead with it :-P There is limited benefit in supporting "out of tree" code if most/all the people don't care about it ... and Mesa is likely to land ~soonish ;-) I see your point, hopefully mine was clear as well. Emil _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
