Actually adding mailing lists ... On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Bram, > > Adding mailing lists, private mails to maintainers doesn't scale. > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Bram Vlerick <vlerickb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> I was looking through the documentation at >> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/ looking for an usefull way of >> getting more familiar with DRM/KMS. I noticed the VKMS stuff in the TODO. >> >> I was wondering which functionality you had in mind that this driver would >> expose / which helpers you had in mind. (drm_simple_kms_helpers?) >> >> As suggested I've already read through vgem. And used it to get an initial >> module started. Are there any other good suggestions? > > There's multiple reasons for creating vkms. One would be as an example > driver, the other would be to test/validate various bits of kms > infrastructure in the kernel, i.e. create a hw neutral way to to > validate the igt gpu tests we have against vkms. In short a rather > open-ended task, you can do whatever you want to. But probably makes > more sense to do something you find personally interesting or useful, > otherwise it's hard to judge what makes sense (since it's such an open > project), and it's hard to stay motivated. > > Cheers, Daniel > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch -- 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
